@surferxyz - I could be totally wrong about the private keys that I had found (it may be related to something else?), but if you look in the dll, you will see reference to 'private key', and it has a key that is used to sign something used during validation.
@T-Rad - I can post the installer, if you would like to take a look! Any help is definitely appreciated.. I own a real license for this application, and am just trying to tackle this for fun I guess.
Thank you guys