Thanks Mike, I didn't know about that, I always thought OEM was just like the full retail but without any books or maybe support. So thanks for the warning!

It is funny in my last 2 computes I bought, I never got windows OS cd's, but had to burn restore dvd's for my computers. The problem with that is each time I want to do a clean install, it installs all these apps I don't want and I have to spend an hour to remove everything and then start to install what I want, hate that!!

I have also read now on more than one blog, that if you buy a notebook that comes with Vista, you will have the most difficult time installing previous versions of windows as you can't find drivers for the hardware. They had a great sale this week, a notebook for $350, nothing powerful, but more than enough to take around to surf or program on... anyways it comes with vista home, so I started to read about notebooks, vista and putting XP back on and came across these issues, so held off on the purchase.
That is scary that you are locked into one OS when you buy new complete systems now!