yeah i do remember that now, though I already had xp and if memory serves me correct I allowed my pc to download sp2 when it updated. Now the interesting thing is that I have been fooling around trying to get poser 7 to work tonight and decided on a hunch to grab the DVD I installed the poser 7 file to while I waited for e-frontier to send me the cd, I extracted it onto my desktop and its now downloading from the dvd I made, though it hangs up on the efrontier cd/dvd. I dont quite understand it. Now I cross my fingers and hope the new install works.

Though I do hear what your saying about waiting a year or so, thats the obvious thing for all of us to do but where all so enthralled when a new windows OS comes out, and I am my own worst enemy because I will buy it and when it comes out with bugs I will be the first to complain. Though vista was supposed to come out in early 2006 I believe and then they pushed it back, with all the bugs you might think that they would have done a little bit more fixing before releasing it.