Clean up prior to AIM/OCI?

[Victory103]

Gents, having a few install issues that I am working through by reading the support posts. The basic one, AIM hangs on start and I have checked various .cfg files, will submit logs if I can't figure it out.
My question is, would it be better to remove my previously installed traffic files (not models/paints) prior to re-attempting an install with the latest beta? I used the AIFP method for years and have tons of AI traffic.bgls in P3D4.4, not to mention my MAIW files (worldwide).