Next payday I'll head over to the campus computer store and take advantage of one of the few perks that university employees enjoy: inexpensive software. I'll pick up the upgrade for Win XP Pro ($21) and the MS Office Suite ($21). There was another one I wanted that is $7, but I can't remember which it is now. Anyway. . .

I've seen talk here at Mudcat about difficulties when upgrading to XP from Win2000 Pro. (The computer store only offers the new OS program as an "upgrade," if that makes any difference.) Any thoughts on it? I use an HP Pavilion 9870. It could use some more memory, but it runs fine and has lots of bells and whistles. I'll clean everything up, do my scans, run a backup in Ghost. Any thoughts on approaching this upgrade? Cautionary tales?

SRS