Vista install

I took the plunge yesterday and installed Vista on my main PC, which has been running win2k up until this point. At first, things didn't go as well as I'd hoped. Vista doesn't let you upgrade from within Win2K - you have to boot from the CD. Also, it's not an in place upgrade - vista doesn't keep all your old programs so everything has to be reinstalled (from win2k anyway. I think XP is a bit more forgiving). Doing a dual boot might have been a nice idea, but I didn't have any free partitions with enough space on them. Anyway, I proceeded with the install regardless since I like to live dangerously. Strangely, the install paused on "Unpacking files - 0%" for about a half an hour before starting up again and finishing the install. Then it got weirder from there. Instead of booting up into Vista, Win2k started loading up again and informed me that there was an error logging me in, but it let me in anyway. None of my programs were there and it was basically like booting into a fresh win2k setup for the first time. I ended up messing around with things for a couple hours trying to get it to boot into vista, even going so far as to pull a hard drive out of my other PC to try to install vista on it (though vista didn't see the drive for some reason). Finally I went thru the vista install process again and this time it worked. All my hardware was detected automatically except for my audio drivers but I downloaded the drivers from the manufacturer's site and they installed fine. Now I have the unhappy task of reinstalling all my old software, but at least I have a working OS.