Hi Steve, I thought buying a new i7 2600 spec’d machine with x86 (32 bit) capability was all I needed to get all of my old software and hardware going again. But with the new cd/dvd drives not recognizing the old software, and the new computers having PCIe slots instead of the old style PCI slots, it’s making things a nightmare to try to utilize my older hardware that still works too good to throw out. 
So you must have known about these issues, and so far have avoided these problems by holding back a bit. At least the Cubase 5 VST/32 program is working well on the Windows 7 computer in the X86 realm. That’s now one less headache I have to deal with, thanks to the Steinberg folks here. 