Vista - Working with viewing Folders and Files

I have been trying to work on a web site I manage with a newly purchased
Vista laptop, Vista Home Basic, all seems to be fine and runs ok but
unexpected things happen, so far I have flip flopped the web site back and
forth with the previous XP laptop and find the following over the past 3
weeks:

I have a folder with all the images I need for a web site, inside that I
have sub folders with the images in them that correspond with the pages I use
them on in FrontPage 2003, in Windows XP I can scroll the mouse over these
folders which I have in medium view so I can tell if images are in these
folders and I also see a preview of the names of the images in each folder,
with Vista on this medium view, I see only the date of the folder and the
size of the images inside it when I scroll over it not a preview of the names
of the images inside. I use this feature to make sure the correct images are
in the correct folders a lot.

While working in FrontPage 2003 I need to change/remove images regularly
removing ones for sold items, in XP I can use either Ctrl and and mouse click
on to select all these images one by one or Ctrl Shift to select a group then
right mouse click and select Delete, in Vista I can not use Ctrl Click on
these images at all and can only use Ctrl Shift and then I have to use Edit
from the menu and Delete to remove the images because when I right mouse
click it unhighlights the selected images?

Lastly I receive the images via email and there are usually 4-6, I use
Thunderbird and right mouse click on the first image and use Save All, in XP
the last sub folder I used comes up so I click to select the main folder and
it shows me a tree view of all the sub folders so I can put the images in the
proper folder inside the main one, always XP allows this tree view so I can
scroll down and highlight the correct folder to put the images in, some times
Vista will not open this view so I can scroll to the correct folder and place
the images in the correct folder hence I end up only being able to put them
in the last sub folder I did use and then goto the folder and cut and paste
them to the correct folder.

Since I have been using a laptop more for travel between home and work I
wanted a bigger screen that the newer laptop has. I usually have several
programs open for working on the web site, IM, email, FrontPage, Image
editor, browser and neither of the laptops seem to have a problem with that
but I find that not having the names of these files show and the problem with
easy removal of images in FrontPage and the problem saving images to the
correct sub folder to be a set back.

Other growing pains are every once in a while FrontPage freezes on the Vista
laptop but recovers. Both laptops seem to have the same speed but the Vista
one of course is running on 512 more ram to do that the, specs on both are
almost the same, the XP processor is 1.4MHz and the Vista is 1.6 otherwise
the only other difference is the XP has a 60gig HD and the Vista is 80.