weird_ideas: My background is not IT. It's complicated but involves home theater and automation.

I'm not saying crashing once a week is acceptable. Since I've had my Denali it's gone down once. I have it optimized and on a nightly reboot schedule so "crashes" are limited to non existent.

Not sure why the Niveus MCE's crashed on you. My only guess is that they were probably running the Beta version of Vista. I've seen that happen, too. I saw Vista on Niveus two weeks ago and it didn't crash once. Quite the opposite, actually.