For whatever reason Vista would lock up while trying to install it directly without downloading the installer to the harddrive first. Like it would try and refrence the install files after it had already deleted them from the temporary folder. When that happened I had to end the installer task from the Task manager, then restart the computer. After I donloaded it first to the hard drive the installer worked fine, other than the million times Vista asks, "your computer is doing something, do you want it to?"
I talked with my brother, who is becoming quite the tech geek, who told me that vista would prefer if you created two user accounts, one that has all the admin privleges and less security measures for installing stuff, then you're "every day" account that is locked down. That makes it run a bit more smoothly.