Went with a Core 2 Quad core and 8 GB ram (only 6 GB working, that last stick gets me a blank screen, may be bad) and Windows 7 64-bit. Only things I kept from the old machine are the hard drive (brand new anyway) and the GeForce 9500 1 GB card, which should do just fine.

Again, not top-o-the-line, but will blow away my old system. My first build, lots of fun, learned a lot, and most importantly - it works!

Haven't had time yet to see how C7 Pro works on it, but I'll get to that. Still deciding when to upgrade to C8 Pro.

Thanks all,
Mike