Don't Install AIM 6 on Vista

[synth3tk]

So I got tired of using Trillian for instant messaging, and finally installed the individual programs. MSN, check. Yahoo, check. AIM, check. Everything's going fine until one day my network icon starts showing as disconnected, even though I know I'm on the internet, wireless or ethernet, and when I hover over the icon it says: "Status Unknown: Server Execution Failed". Strange, so I try to start figuring out what's happening. System properties states that my Processor and RAM status is "Currently Unavailable" and nothing with WMI works. Not exactly sure what the problem is, but I just keep working a few more days in this state.

After a while I start getting random reboots with no warning and longer startup times. A search on Google brought me to a Microsoft Technet thread with over 15 pages of other people who had the same symptoms as me, but none who had a solution. Come to find out that the most common program we all had was AIM 6. Go figure that Microsoft hasn't found a cure after 2 months of people complaining and sending in info. Finally a guy had come up with a fix using the command line, but you can't leave AIM installed so I'm stuck back with using a multi-protocol IM client. Bleh.

Anyway, that was just a vent and a warning combined. I'm frustrated with Vista as a whole, almost ready to downgrade to XP.

[Edit: Most of the people had wireless cards in laptops/desktops]