Okay, I'll ask.

After last night's exercise, the gigabit nic is still not working correctly. Device manager reports that it's installed and working properly, the various network reproting screens in Vista indicate that it's connected to the LAN and internet and working fine, yet the status screen indicates that it's only running at 10 mbs. I've tried forcing both the linkspeed and nic speed to 1 gig, but it doesn't help. The card is good (it works on my other laptops) and with the same gigabit switch that the SZ is connected to. I've given up (at least I was able to get a full install of Office 2003 with no errors, so last night's re-install wasn't completely in vain).

Any suggestions?