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Yup, I also have SHIII 1.4b, GWX 1.03 and SHCommander running fine under Vista. It is also in my user space, in "../games/ubisoft/SHII/".

If you've installed it in the default "program files" directory, the patch won't work - since Vista's UAC will cause the actual patch files to be written to the hidden "AppData" directory in your user space. And for SHIII to work, the patch files need to be in the actual SHIII program directory. Installing outside of "program files" bypasses UAC control, and the patch will then write the files where they need to be for SHIII to find them during loading.