Evana Islay

Hon -- While I am loathe to lay blame on Vista for your specific SL problems, there are numerous reports that show Vista to be substandard in performance in a variety of situations. If you can, I would suggest you upgrade to Windows-7 just to avoid all the intrinsic Vista problems. I realize this is a shotgun approach to solving your SL problems, but its a relatively easy step to take and eliminates all the known Vista bugs from your situation. -- Evan Islay