Well, here I sit at 0545 with a machine that I am able t o develop software with that I should be able to distribute to the current PC market from XP to Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bit.  All it took was one upgrade to the operating system to Windows 7 x64 professional.  I bought the OEM version for $139 and paid no taxes or shipping.  I just finished getting gifnet.us front end site to run locally.  Tomorrow is another day.  Now I am gong to run a system backup and call it a night or day depending on how you want to look at it.