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My take on Vista is that it would be a horrible idea to put it on a currently functional and already built system; however, you're probably going to want it sometime in the future for some feature that it has, if only DX10 support. So, if you're building a new system, grab Vista Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate and use that as your OS; if not, stick with what you've got as you don't ~need~ any of the new features anyway and making sure all of your hardware works will be a pain.
For instance, I've been running XP64 (consumer build of Server 2003 x86_64 ed.) since my last reinstall simply because, during my Vista / XP64 research, I found all of my drivers and thought that I might as well go ahead and use it. Everything run smoothly and Server 2k3 is mildly better at process & memory management than XP so it's pretty much a win/win situation; however, although I have a Vista Business ISO & License (MSDN subscriptions via school are nice), I've already decided that I'm going to keep XP64 on my current box as the 'upgrade' wont be worth it. While the system is definitely good enough to run Vista, I have some older / odder hardware (TV Tuner card) that could be very problematic to get running in Vista--heck, it wasn't supposed to be nearly this easy to get running in XP64.
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