thanks, again (i don't see the HELPFUL buttons anymore of i would give u a couple clicks)
no migration assistant used -- i installed 10.10.2 on top of two healthy 10.8 systems -- everything appears to work on both machines except illustrator (and that's working now on both 2011 macbook pros since i installed java 8 and ran the Terminal routines as noted)
i also saw a lot of Adobe uninstall/reinstall advice about how to fix this JAVA issue on many sites i was researching -- my point for adding my last comment and this redundant comment about that fire drill is it seems to be irrelvent to fixing this issue -- at least for me the fix was clearly adding the two folders through the Terminal or manually as in the screenshots i posted