Vista Home Premium, so yeah.

Oh goodness, not ME.  I am still having nightmares about the week or so I had it on my old machine, right up until I ripped it off and reinstalled 98.

Vista is better, not much but better.  I also suspect that it might well be some bit of nonsense that comes from it being a Gateway.  One does not look the gift horse in the mouth though when the gift horse has a quad core and 6 gigs of RAM.