Archie B,
Just an FYI, the manual R5 update is what broke my QuickBooks Enterprise 2022 installation. I have a single server where I can't install R5 regardless of how I try to install it. I've traced the issue to a bad/malformed digital code-signing certificate attached to the QB installers (the full installer as well as the manually downloaded update installer). I'm currently running QBDT R3 on that server while I build a new one for testing. It seems to be an isolated issue, but for anyone having issues where all you get is the QuickBooks splash screen, then nothing, it is worth investigating as the root cause in your environment.
