I've already run into my first major Vista problem, and it's apparently hardware-related. Several times now, my computer has frozen hard -- no reboot, but a complete hardcore freeze -- when either coming up out of or going into sleep mode.
I'm not sure what could be the cause of this, but I suspect a hardware driver for one of the more esoteric components of my AMD motherboard could be it. They're all generic Microsoft-issued drivers, so maybe there's a chance they're not totally debugged yet. If AMD issues their own drivers, I'll probably set a System Restore point and try them out.
For now, I've disabled sleep mode. I also ran a memory test (thinking that maybe Vista's use of ASLR had something to do with it), but it turned up nothing. As always, I'll keep people posted.
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