MSP-EXP430FR5994: Audio Record and Playback Demo

That worked. Suggestions:

1. It be helpful to inform the purchaser of this bug before they buy it.

2.  I think it's possible to set compiler/linker options in the Demo project to disable the MPU so it works out of the box?

For any other hapless individuals who have stumbled into a similar misadventure, maybe this will help you: To disable the MPU, you might think that you can do this in the first option you come across in the compiler settings:

But this would be wrong. You must set it in the  linker options:

At this point you  may experience an error similar to this:

My solution to this problem was just to start an entirely new directory and re-import the project. 

Finally, as a way to verify the compiler options, I find the makefile to be extremely valuable. For example, in this case it's setting MPU_ENABLE during compilation, but this appears to be benign because it's disabling MPU during linking (I don't know what I'd without cygwin):

Ideally, this would all be done via command-line, instead of fighting the GUI, but that's a story for another day.