Probably a good call as the type of skills required to do a bespoke install of Vista are fairly specialised and the type of issues you are finding could take a while to fix. I recently opted for a pre-install which came from the manufacturer. The performance and functionality of this combination is truly amazing and would not have had this experience, I fear, if I had went down the route you opted for. The way I look at the whole XP / Vista thing is that you should go with what ever you feel is right for you. Vista is dragging IT into the next decade of computing and that may not be for everyone - remember there are still plenty of COBAL programmers out there and I guess in 20 years from now there will still be a host of people using XP.

That's just the problem, Allan. Only geeks like you can get Vista to work. The rest of us should just get MACs.

I agree with Bad Vistas. Vista needs more beta testing by regular people which is MS standard operating procedure. I still use XP and bought several licenses of XP to keep us on XP at work for a few more years...despite Microsoft.

Love my 64 bit vista. Stay with your tricycles if you want.