I will be testing this one out thoroughly as soon as I can get the time. Hopefully this weekend...I feel like a bit of pain from an early adoption once in a while...let's see if I get my fix this time!

Win Win either way I say. I will report back on how I go...a fresh install on my old now dead (HDD RAID Failure...long painful story there) first Vista Media Centre Machine.
SPECS are...
HDD TBC...probably start with 200GB IDE drive and build from there....needs a BIOS update for larger drives I think.
Gigabyte 955X Mobo
Intel PentiumD 2.XGHz 805D Processor
GeForce 2600TC V/C
1 or 2GB DDR2 533 Ram
DVD Rom
...any forseable issues let me know....will update to full spec details when I get into it.