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Hi RetroDude, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I have always found it best to install Vista first, drivers, SP1, then the rest of Windows Updates.

For the drivers, I have always installed the latest ones available from the device manufacturer's website. Be sure to include installing the latest BIOS and chipset driver versions from your motherboard's website to. I made it easy and had the driver installation files on DVD or another partition. This way it was faster and handy if I had no network connection for whatever reason.

Hope this helps,
Shawn