You are so totally right about that damn prompt. My favorite so far is when it prompts you to tell you that only administrators can access something, when I'm logged in as an administrator. Pretty funny.

Too bad. I've already looked at the site for the controller card (Promise surprisingly doesn't appear to have anything for Vista yet). I can't imagine that I'll find anything for the mobo SATA controller. ASUS barely has drivers for the A7N8X anymore.

You might be right about the compatibility mode. It appears that at the moment, I can't boot Vista without the installation CD in the drive I installed from. Otherwise, it says it can't find a boot disk.