I think when I failed at my first install, the settings were saved with avast online with the whole create mirror server business.
When I installed the second time, it unknowingly installed as a mirror of the first and it was looking for it.
When I installed the third time, it unknowingly installed as a mirror of the second and it was looking for it.
When I installed the fourth time, it unknowingly installed as a mirror of the third and was looking for it.
When I installed the fifth time, it unknowingly installed as a mirror of the fourth and found it running on a different virtual machine. I found a few computers and everything was fine until I shut down the fourth machine and lost connection in the fifth install.
The errors 10061 & 10049 in tcpConnectSSL were the latter machine looking for the former machine, being unable to find it. The exception was that on my fifth install, the fourth install was still running in another virtual machine. Then when I shut the fourth down, I got the error in the fifth. If it were not for me accidentally leaving the fourth OS up while the fifth OS was running, I would not have figured this out.
I will start fresh install, careful to not create a mirror.