So I've been all over these forums everyday since I got a new Vista laptop hoping to find a solution to the Maple/Vista issues. First it looked as if Maple simply would not work, then I found some metheds that dealt with changing certain appearance features before the install to get Maple to install, but the major complaint in all of this was the inability to open and save files. I finally got everything to work and want share the process with others. I posted this as a reply already, but felt that it warrented it's own thread since I'm probably not the only one looking for a concrete answer. The purpose here is to document a method that worked for me with an appropriate title so it can easily be found. Hopefully I'm not out of line in doing so, and hopefully this isn't a repost proving that I am a horrible searcher.:)