Vol

BootIt did the trick!!!!! It was really spooky monkeying around with
partitions containing live data, but it worked like a champ. BootIt has a
"slide" feature that allowed me to move the C drive backwards. Once the
unallocated space was at the END of the drive, the native Vista tools pulled
it right in.

Once again, all is well in the PC world (at least until the next little bug
pops up!)

Thanks for the great suggestion.

~Vol