As promised, the UPS girl came by the house and delivered my new Dell XPS 210 with Vista. (The UPS girl sure looked a lot like dckozak's avatar! My husband stared at her until his eyes went buggy). Anyway, the Comcast guy also made an appearance and while he was stringing cable outside the house, I was frantically putting the computer together. I am going from Millennium Edition to Vista; that's like, that's like, well, like flying a biplane to flying the F-18.

The "problem" I have is that the XPS "will not release the IP address to the modem." Basically, I cannot get online. As I understand it, Vista doesn't want to release any information or data without having it pried out of its bony clutches. All I want to do is get started on my taxes!

Will report again after the repairman comes by tomorrow.