You're welcome but I wish it weren't necessary.

I still don't have a handle on why plug-ins and modules installed but not the component itself. However, that was the problem on the install...no component to uninstall so a few residuals were left behind which caused the application to crash...specifically the joomdlesession parameters, but that was, frankly, easy to correct once I realized what was causing the hiccup.
After you complete your upgrades I'll give it another whirl as I do like the idea of combining the two on a website.
Regards...