DR JMK - Good to see you again! Hope you get your Vista "problems" worked out soon.
-Of course, I have to ask, "Why?"
If you mean why did we get a computer with Vista--because we had no choice (well, I could have gotten a Mac, but I'm old-fashioned). When our old computer #1 died, it did so very suddenly, with me in the middle of a huge charting job and Gabe one day away from his Science Fair with all of his data on the computer. When I went out to buy a new computer, they had just that day (of course) pulled all PCs off the shelf because Vista was being released in 2 weeks and Microsoft wasn't letting them sell anything with XP anymore. So we managed to cobble together a computer out of old components we had lying around, and a friend of Betsy's came over and helped me get the old hard drive from the dead one into this cobbled together one, so that I could finish charting and Gabe could finish Science Fairing.
And then when I was able to get a new computer, all I could get was one with Vista. It's actually been OK, slowly my old software is working as drivers are being released, but it's been a challenge. One really weird thing is that some (not all) General MIDI files don't play correctly. Still trying to figure that one out.
Aren't you glad you asked--NOT.
And, BTW, the Wii internet access worked with the old computer. Yay!!