Quote - Don't get Vista ... there are a lot of issues still with it.  If you have your XP install disks, keep them.

You want at least 2 Gigs of RAM, 4 is better.  And I'd stick with nVidia for the graphics card, I'd just move up to at least a 6600.

I have an Core 2 Duo chip 1.8 Ghz, 2 Gb of DDR 3200 RAM (the next to be upgraded) and an nVidia graphics card and I run P7, Vue 6, CS2, Bryce, CS3 ... no problems with any of them.

Why nvidia?