Well, I've had it decided for me. As much as I know I ought to be trying to learn Vista, the fact that I can't persuade the blade servers to mount Dion's DVD drive- but CAN mount a DVD drive when I connect a different, XP-based laptop- kind of did it for me today. When I go home tonight I'm downloading every conceivable driver for this Toshiba and cramming them all onto both a DVD and a USB thumb drive. mephron, next time we meet, I believe you have a disk?

I realize this could be some kind of security setting in the laptop's BIOS or some such drivel like that, but after a day of 'oh yeah, did you initiate this, or do I have to lay the smackdown on someone?' paternalistic snotty pop-up messages from Vista (slogan: "We Know What's Best For You, Don't Trouble Your Pretty Little Head About It"), I no longer want to ever look Vista in the face again.

Laptop's probably gonna get renamed Ultra Magnus, since renaming it to Ironhide would imply that it was considerably more rugged and capable of taking damage than I think it is. Although I will admit the colour scheme is entirely wrong for either mech, but they're the two most often cited candidates for 'this one might have once been Dion', which is why I used the name in the first place.