Quote - I did both of these and then some, and I have an off the shelf machine that I am sure is quite common.

Well, you got me there. My system is not so common. AMD Dual Opteron I'm afraid, with 64-bit Vista. As I've seen several other posts from Vista users that have said they are not having problems, maybe SR3 was about making things work better for Vista, and they forgot about making things work for everyone?

Just a thought.