As I was reading your post, it occurred to me that User Account Control in Vista might be interfering with RB. You can disable UAC. When I installed it on Vista, because I wanted to keep UAC working, I installed BIAB and RB by right-clicking on the installation file and then selecting "Run as Administrator".

Vista seems to have made life difficult for a few people in these forums. Seems to work fine for me, though.

Regards,
Noel

P.S. As Silvertones indicates, BIAB and RB are really worth persevering with. RealTracks are brilliant If you want to have a listen to one of my songs which is entirely BIAB/RB (no live playing at all) just to give you a very tiny idea as to what is possible, have a listen to

http://www.songu.com/yearbooknew/songinfo.aspx?ID=706&LockerID=21596


MY SONGS...
Audiophile BIAB 2026