Well still no luck starting 7, 8, 8.1 and 9 under Snow Leopard with the new Key code loaded, just wondering there when Karl said about those releases being for the PPC might prevent them from seeing the key on an Intel but they all installed with no problem, so on to plan B.
Plan B
Moved all jobs unlikely to see the light of day again onto 2 external drives ie made 2 copies - I believe in Murphy's law, it also made sufficient room on the HDD.
Downloaded and updated vmware fusion - update worked no problem but a bit slow, XP still worked after the upgrade.
Updated it with all windows fixes for XP.
Installed all ArchiCAD releases v6 to v10 on the virtual machine.
Downloaded and installed WIBU 5.20 for windows made sure that the key was connected to the virtual machine, crossed fingers and hit the go button for v7 - worked.
and so does 8, 8.1, 9 and 10.
Not a glug out of 6 and 6.5 but I suppose that was hoping for too much and anyway I think they used the old serial key.
Big surprise after downloading and installing the windows WIBU software in the virtual machine the key still works on the Mac, I fully expected the key drivers to be scrambled, so now still have 11, 12 and 13 working on the Mac.
Not ideal splitting the action but if it gets the job done what harm.
Well it helps to pass the time.