This post helped a bit.  this issue seemed related to the license.properties file.  when I deleted it and used the values in it (license.downloadID and license.customer.name) to log in I was able to avoid the issue. https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/aem-licens...

Thanks for the reply but the "Accepted Solution" in the other thread (or this one for that matter) was "The error is pretty clear" which really doesn't solve anything.  This is a fresh instance of everything so an error of " Record xxx does not exist ...isn't really helpful to me.  I guess if I had ...

To create a fresh instance of AEM locally I... 1) grab a 6.5 quickstart jar from Adobe and add it and my license.properties file to a new folder 2) double clicked the jar to create my new "crx-quickstart" folder 3) After a bit, a browser pops asking me to log in to AEM (even tho the license file is ...