So I booted into Windows again today, just for a few minutes, and the little update notifier doowhackey popped off. It wants to install SP3. I clicked the little link there to read more about this wonderfulness the gods at MS have bestowed upon us, and I found this;

950717 Steps to take?! That's a lot of bleeding steps. No wonder I dislike windows. And I thought it was like pulling teeth to get my video card working with Ubuntu.