Tajima pulse install question

New to the embroidery world, sorry if its a dumb question. I'm trying to install the tajima pulse 2009 softwear. Do I need the dongle to install? I have it, just not with me. It's not installing on 2 different machines. One windows XP and one windows 7.

Also, has anyone tried importing .ai files from Mac into pulse 13.1?
Thanks

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