What's up with Adobe Application Manager CS6?

If I select within Pr (CS6): Help > Updates...

here is the resulting update check (as expected):

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But...

if I directly run Application Manager either from the Start Menu shortcut,

or by running the executable file (PDapp.exe) in this location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\core\

Here is the message I get:

(Not logged in with my Adobe ID.)

'Sup with that?

notes:

This is the first time I have tried to run AAM since this series of events

on 7/6 (I was logged in with my Adobe ID at the time)

The steps I took on 7/6:

- Ran Adobe Application Manager from the Start Menu shortcut.

- Normal AAM interface appeared (as pictured in first image above).

- Once connected, the AAM interface immediately disappeared,

and a small progress bar appeared stating:

"Updating Adobe Application Manager".

(No screen shot available)

- At about 50-75% completion of the progress bar, an icon appeared

on my desktop called: "Adobe Creative Cloud".

- At about 95% completion of the progress bar, the update stalled.

- I killed the stalled AAM update in the Task Manager, then rebooted.

After reboot, these processes had been added to startup:

- Creative Cloud.exe

- Adobe CEF Helper.exe

I killed these two unwanted processes in the Task Manager,

then uninstalled "Creative Cloud.exe" using:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features

After reboot, the two unwanted processes

were no longer present in the Task Manager.

Now that I am logged in with my Adobe ID, I am going to run

AAM again from the Start Menu shortcut and see what happens.

UPDATE EDIT:

I am now logged in and I have just tried again

to run AAM from the Start Menu shortcut.

Error: