I would advise that you learn to live with Vista and forget the instant
gratification ploy, It is, in fact, superior to XP.
But superior in what?
You can set up XP to be more secure than a default Vista. What Vista does
is pretend to give in to those who STILL insist on running everything as
administrator, and better protect them from themselves.
On the positive side, Vista forces some application developers (including a
few in their own ranks) to think about the rights an application really
needs, instead of to expect that administrator will be the only access
level ever used.
What I did on some W2K and XP machines is rename the administrator account
to something else, and create a new "Administrator" account that's really a
power user.
Some of them never notice, but you can count on it that those who DO notice
start searching for something that doesn't work, to complain about.
The less knowledgeable they are about common security practices (such as
NOT clicking on every link because it's there), the harder they complain.
And why do managers need administrator rights? Because they don't want an
admin ever to have to come near their machine, afraid he'll find something
that shouldn't be there.
In the case of our general manager that's downloaded mp3's, and he still
believes I don't know.
Or maybe there's something I *really* shouldn't see, and those mp3's are
just a decoy
)