Hey Sith...

thanks but this is the newby to computers answer...as I said...I installed it fine on my vista but did not have the same results on my xp. so not sure what went wrong or what version of the sql server is needed with xp. it says that it will install sql 2005 for vista which it did, but did not install any for xp...I had to go out myself and download.

yes, the computer has the min. requirements