It appears I may have found the first real problem after installing VISTA SP2 (RC) and it deals with the print spooler.. and of course after noticing the obvious print spooler not running and turning it on to have it turn off after a reboot, it seems removing the SP2 update was (probably) not needed since during the uninstall I did some investigating and found this fix, which I will report whether it worked for me or not shortly.
