It's most likely the driver issue, Dave. I was going to do XP 64 myself, after having to nuke and rebuild to get rid of a couple of nasty trojan stubs, but most of the drivers I found were several years old, and some things simply lacked drivers. So I broke down and got Vista Ultimate....

That said, of course XP64is faster; its not running several layers of DRM crapola code in the background And while I seem to be taming Vista for my uses, I really wouldn't recommend it. Windows 7 is on the horizon, and it is looking as if Vista may meet the fate that MS has been fantasizing for for XP (assuming Win7 actually is them learning from their mistakes, and not not simply putting more lipstick on the ol bloated piggy......