Adventures in cross-platform living

So I recently switched my main desktop machine from Mac to PC. It was a gradual process; my old iBook became the wife's computer, and my dual-proc MDD G4 became a dedicated audio box for my new studio. I had built a little beater PC for running Access and some other cro-mag PC-only software, as well as for checking web pages in IE (as they don't behave the way you think they're gonna, sometimes). When I say beater, I mean PIII, 10GB HDD, old Voodoo 3dfx card beater.

One morning as I enjoyed my coffee and bagel I spied the Fry's ad in the paper, and what did I see but a P4 / Mobo combo for US$99.00! Sold, I thought. Time to upgrade and take advantage of Google Earth and maybe get some games, etc. (Note to the faithful: I have almost always been able to find good games for the Mac, starting back with Marathon. the G4 currently has Halo and Rainbow Six 3 on it.) You know how this ends. The processor and mobo swap led to an NVidia card and a 200GB HDD (courtesy of Outpost.com, which Fry's owns) which led to, initially, a SUSE 9.3 Pro load - previous post below - but when the time came to put XP on, it didn't like being on the G drive, so there that went. I will reload at some point, because I really like some things about that OS.

I'll say this about SUSE: it found every single piece of hardware on this box. I was good to go as soon as the install finished. XP was quite a different story. I had to load the D-Link drivers manually and then hunt down some of the drivers for the stuff on the board. Like the sound card, for the love a Mike! Anyway, I'm rambling now...