I think I'll try XP with the /3GB switch. I didn't think that could be used outside of a server variant of windows. Now to convince the WAN group that I need XP over W2k. They seem to share Tony's distrust of XP.

More than you may want to know:
There are two critical program I'm running, Intralink and Wildfire, both from PTC. They are data managment and cad programs, respectivly.

When importing cad models into the Intralink database, Intralink tends to want to import the whole shebang in one big gulp. Intralink actually calls the cad software in the background to help sort out the model crossreferences. That one big gulp tends to cause a deadlock when the total VM for both exceeds 2GB. It dosen't seem to matter the size of the page file. I've had page files totaling 4GB.