Digital BW, The Print

I'm posting this message to thank everyone for their advice on Vista.
 For now at least, you have talked me out of going there.  THANKS! 
I'm sure I'll be better off for it.

My despair with XP was due to the fact that my one-month-old dual core
3GB machine had first become verrrry sloooowwww, then started waking
out of sleep mode with no video, gave me the "blue screen of death" a
few times, would lose the mouse when switching users, and generally
required at least 3 hard reboots a day.  My old Celeron XP machine was
looking pretty attractive.  (Yes I have and use virus and spam
software, not Symantec, and run behind a hardware firewall.)

I figured I'd need to rebuild from scratch anyway so why not really
compound my problems and try Vista. 

Anyway, a concerted effort to replace/update drivers etc. seems to
have helped a lot.  Video and mouse are behaving.  No hard reboots for
a while.  (Knock on wood!)  But performance is still nowhere near that
first glorious two weeks.

Vista... later thank you.