Thanks everyone for the help! I was able to finally get the BTC database synchronized. Bitcoin Core is working. Unfortunately, Armory is not. After armoryDB.exe opens its command prompt window, Armory crashes with error "tried to use invalid lmdb iterator".
At first there was a problem with database version mismatch so I deleted the "databases" folder under Armory, then the new error happened. Any suggestions? I will post the log in a short while if I can save it before Armory crashes.