So it turns out that my computer will not allow me to install a 32-bit OS. I tried XP 32 bit and got a BSOD and I tried Vista 32 bit that just gave me some kind of text error msg (too distraught to remember....).

Could it be that I have some sort of supercomputer, sent from the future?

(It is an Acer after all...... :-/)

I guess I'm stuck between a fast VNC server w/o a working service and a relatively slow VNC server that I can log into windows with.

Things could be worse I suppose.