No prob, I can tell you from personal experiance, PhotoShop on XP is damn fast. OK, so XP had at least 22 megs of updates just after I installed it, but the system seems to work well. SP2 for Win 2K won't help, if you are getting a temp file immediately, you might want to purge your file (EDIT -> Purge) you will lose your undo's and history states, but that is probably what's causing you the hassles. Your rant wasn't bad, I've read much worse. Frustration is a killer. Good luck to you.