Toshiba laptop take two

I installed a variety of Slackware distros on the laptop with varying
degrees of finding the hardware and playing nice with the other
distros already installed. It seems that VectorLinux is the smoothest
of the slackware distros at the moment and Ubuntu is still the
slickest linux distro of them all (I use plain slack and debian for
servers, but when I would like something already fairly setup, I would
rather go with a desktop distro).

I've decided that having XP on this would be a good idea (as most of
my clients run XP) so I'm actually writing this from XP right now
(gasp!). The CD that comes with the laptop does not have drivers for
the network card or working drivers for the wireless (as well as a far
amount of other hardware). I had to resort to using Toshiba's website
to download drivers for 75% of the hardware that is on this thing. The
ACPI support still doesn't seem to be quite right as I can't have the
laptop go to sleep when I close the lid (you would think this would be
a given).

Next up is a reinstall of Ubuntu and VectorLinux and then hoping that
I can get on my WPA2 wireless from linux.

Cheers on Saint Patty's Day