I noticed my test clients all now have eval edition on their client security.  I am a licensed EA customer and I want some assurance I'm not going to have to through an ugly process to get these to an RTM version if I push this client out to the enterprise.

This is old post and there have been several changes in FEP, now the successor of FEP is System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) and several things been improved. Try reproduce your issue in SCEP and if problem persist, please post it as a new question.