Oh! One more thing I should note because Windows now comes in more flavors than Ben & Jerry's. I ended up with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit with downgrade rights to Win XP Pro. I didn't *choose* that; in fact, I was told that the computer came with XP pre-loaded and an upgrade disk for Win 7. I bought it intending to keep it as an XP machine since I *knew* all of my peripherals and programs would work.

I was not originally happy to find it was pre-loaded with 7 but figured I'd tour it before installing XP over it. I found I liked it well enough and decided to test it by installing everything I wanted to keep on it. And it has done well with it all. I haven't had time to fully test every last item and program so I don't know for certain that it won't eventually reveal weaknesses but so far it has installed all of my "normal" software (32-bit) in the right place and all of my 64-bit software in its proper location without my needing to know the details of the system. So far, I'm happy. :)