About a month ago, I tried Linux for the first time on this system with a dual-boot between Vista and Ubuntu (Vista came with the computer). After about a month of working with a dual-boot system, for whatever reason, the Vista partition was not as stable as it could have been; that is, there was some sort of new winsock error that forced a very long boot to happen. I was in the midst of backing up files, so it took me a little longer to make the full switch. The re-install I had made of Vista...