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Here I solved the problem entirely by going out and grabbing a Black Friday discount on 10 Pro and ended up with both the 32bit and 64bit flavors on a single disk unlike what you would have seen with past versions having two separate dvds instead of a single combined disk. Couldn't knock the price any!
Being in a situation where I still plan to keep running 7 I simply elected to buy the 10 license and call it a day. You can always try this as well for the temporary run of 10 to decide which way you will go since you still have the OEM drive if not already reserved as a backup/storage drive for the 8.1/10 dual boot. Running 10 on a VM is another option to mention as well.