Look at my activated Windows Vista... aren't I all good.

So with that and my Cisco VPN, all I need now is an Office install and I'll have the best of all worlds. The ability to do work remotely, and the lifestyle applications and geek control of a mac user.

My little Vista crashing on boot problem was solved thanks to the great Parallels community. Here

Running apps in coherence mode whereby Windows' Windows appear on the OS X desktop is very strange. One of the latest additions under the new Beta and Release candidate schedule is that Windows Apps can appear on your OS X dock. Now clicking these icons doesn't cause them to behave in the best fashion, that a single windows won't gain focus. The entire windows machine becomes the active OS X application. I'm sure the development team are working on that.

Another cool'ish feature causes those same windows programs to gain a handle in the Mac OS X world. Finding one in your Parallels install folder and double clicking it will launch the program in Windows. Even if the Parallels machine isn't running it will start and run the application.