A lot of stuff seems to work better now.  I've bugged a few things... but I think I can almost start using this without getting seriously frustrated and annoyed.

I did a parallel install to my XP Pro; since Vista always renames drives letters (making iself the C partition,) my "Previous version of Windows" no longer boots.  I just did a "bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=e:\" to make my old OS boot again.