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Well having been fed up with a reoccurring problem that nobody could locate an easy fix to gave me reason to nuke MCE 2k5 and replace with a shiney new edition of XP Professional x64.
Well there appears to be a slight speed boast (Booting is around a minute from a cold start to the desktop). Applications do appear to be more responsive. I keep hedging because any clean OS install will be faster than the previous base. I am only about 15 hours into the setup. A lot of tweaking and configuring left.
However there are a few gotchas:

Software that won't install/or work properly:

• Acronis True Image 9
• Alcohol 120%
• Disk Keeper Pro 9
• MP3-Info Extension
• PrimoPDF (printer support is 32-bit)
• SysTrayX
• URL Helper (helper application WinCap? is 32-bit)
• Virtual CD 7
• Daemon Tools 4.0 (x64 coming soon)
• Virtual PC 2004

Hardware that lacks driver support

• Belkin Nostromo Speedpad N52
• Creative CT6840 (Webcam)

I am going to fire up a few games most notably the Unreal Tournament 2004 and Far-Cry with the x64 enhancements to see what carnage they cause.