I see your point Tom and the decisions we make are so taylored to our home and listening space designs. It's shame so many of those decisions are made because of the cost of XP.
In my home my computer is in my living room and so is my listening stuff so it really is not a problem as it now is set up. I don't even really need another box, I'm just looking at alternatives. I even have a couple of old cases in the garage, I know I can get my Win98SE versions up and running on almost any chip set, 300 gig hard drives are cheap as is RAM, so there is potential to have a really cheap box that I realize I don't even need.
Who knows what the next free weekend will bring though, perhaps that dreaded trip into Linuxland will hold some inexplicable allure where it only looks like more computer pain today.
Most important, it sounds like you worked out the gremlins.
"I've seen the future. Dang." - That's pretty funny.
Best
Larry
