If you have a version that can hold you over, wait until Windows 7 is released and give it a year to work out the bugs.
Honestly, there is nothing wrong with Vista. I recommend the 64 bit version so you can load up on plenty of memory. Most if not all the apparent bugs have been dealt with, and you can optimize Vista to work fairly lean. Also , the transition to Vista from XP was much easier than going from Windows 98se to XP. That was a real culture shock to me. It was completely different. Where at least Vista and XP share some core elements and configurations, the transition is really much smoother.
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