Let me know how the MP reinstall works when you do it, I’ll probably end up doing the same.

I agree completely with your points on the initial impression of Vista. It was too different, I couldn’t get into a groove with it, and that’s why I went back to XP after a half hour. (That, and I got tired of it asking “Are you sure you want to do this?”, ‘Really, really, really sure?”) After the install was finished, at first I felt that it wasn’t different enough, that the new features were slick and I was excited about them, but that there should have been more of a change. But then it came to me that there was the whole point, that it didn’t change too much to make it a whole new learning experience. But it changed enough to give it a new and fresh look, added so nice new features, but still made the change comfortable.