How long is the original warranty? The drives I currently have came with five-year warranties, but it sounds like a lot of these new drives have only one-year warranties.

I never heard anything bad about XP (except griping about that activation thing). The good reviews were the reason I went with XP instead of switching to 2000, which I was also considering.

Poser 5...well, I've had a lot of problems with it. I like it, and use it instead of PP most of the time, but I definitely understand why some people have had problems with it. I would expect such an old program to fly on a state-of-the-art computer, but it's still pretty slow. One shudders to think what it must have been like on the average computer when it was released, before all the service releases.