I migrated using a transfer utility.  At startup the program requests a validation key as if I were still in a trial period.  But if I skip the validation process and open the progam, while it appears all my sessions are there, the program can not capture the date ranges of the data.  What do I need to do?

What do you mean migrated using a transfer utility. You should have installed a full version on your machine and copied in your backup , code files,databases and tsaddin.ini files from a backup on your orginal computer.