Forget Vista, it is a complete and unmitigated disaster, (Even Microsoft privately admits it’s useless for music software) stay with XP or if you are on 2000 upgrade to XP Pro. (Forget Media Centre)
BTW Microsoft has bought forward the replacement for Vista to 2010
Hope this helps

Bill
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