Well, I'd like to thank everyone again for their help. I'll just continue to keep a Vista disk in it, and use it while we still can. The only costs at this point are the hard drive, which I can take out and use in another machine later if this one dies.
I have an HP that was purchased new, it was a year old in September. Around December, the LCD started flashing/flickering, then about 2 weeks later, just quit. I replaced the LCD Inverter, nothing. So it doesn't surprise me that another HP would have major issues, our printer we had to take back within a week it was an Office Jet, these are good machines (or should be). HP's support is one of the worst I've dealt with over the years, sad, because 10 years ago I loved their products. Thanks again everyone for your help!