Hi Skylark,
there has been a few posts here from people that have had problems with vista, i posted as well doe to a friend that tried it, i don't know how he got on with downloads and searches, but i know he was in my room and there was an auto kick by my fxs for an illegal name change when he had not changed it, vista was loosing the last 5 digits (user id) off of his name and this was seen as an illegal rename. we tested this adding more numbers so he had his name with the normal 3 digits then the following 5 digits, then another 5 digits (user id) and when the illegal rename happened it took the user id & the other 5 digits off that we thought would replace the user id but it didn't, they went too and he was kicked again, each time he tried he was there between 2-10 mins, i did post asking had anyone else had this and was advised to go back to the xp edition, so he did.