Ok, that look like what I want. Just to make sure, I understand, it sound like what I want to do is:
1. Run Windows Easy Transfer, saving the transfer file onto a network share.
2. Bulk copy my "Program Files" directory onto a network share.
3. Do a clean install of Vista64 (erasing/formating the hd in the process)
4. Selectively bulk copy the contents of the saved Program Files folder back onto my hd (carefully avoiding overwritting MSFT files that were updated with Vista)
5. Run Windows Easy Transfer, reading the file saved to the network shared.
6. bask in the glow that all (well, most) of the appliations I was running under XP, are now running under Vista, as I had configured them under XP.
Is that basically it?