Good to hear from you!
My laptop is an LG P300 ,Core2duo 2,5 GHz and Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS. I do not belive I have anything from Rockwell. I have C++ and C# Microsoft Express, VMWare Workstation, GNU Octave with QTOctave, SQL Server Express 2005, PerfectDisk, Mindmanager among others.
I done the same as you except not trying upgrading my Vista machine to SP2. The same level of help from NI it seems.
We both have Nvidia cards could that be it?
I am sure its the 32bit version I have installed. Thanks anyway. Do you have any language packs installed?