I gotta give you credit. No matter what problem normal MS users have, you ALWAYS manage to avoid it.
I have 2 Vista machines at home, installed SP1 on both in one afternoon, one completely unattended. Both booted back up and I have had ZERO problems, other than a little smaller memory footprint. Some people just read a story about some guy named Biff in Sheboygan who had issues becase he was trying to install on a 6 year old laptop with 5 year old drivers and assume that it's the end of the world.
As long as you have plenty of memory, Vista is fine. I have had far fewr lockups than I ever had with XP. Some people just have to b!tch about MS at all costs.