Hi,
Ben, and welcome to the forums.
I maintain a lab of 25 iMacs (20s) at school, and the guy who wrote the project for some unknown reason decided that he wanted Vista on the iMacs - under *Parallels* - not the world's best choice - I eventually convinced him to use BootCamp and install XP (since the rest of the university was still officially using XP, via site license) and I have to say, OS X Leopard has come a long way - I thoroughly enjoy using it, especially in my C/UNIX class - didn't have to bother with installing CygWin under Vista, etc.
However, with the way W7 is benching and with it's speed, I think I am going to take one of the machines over there and make a test case out of it to see how well BootCamp and W7 play with each other. Since that is what I assume you are already doing, and since you are a *relatively* recent Mac ship-jumper, out of curiosity, *are* you using BootCamp, or something else? Also, using rEFIt (Yes, I know, Mac purists say the Command key is all you need, but not everyone at the University - hell, only maybe 20 students out of 3000, for that matter - even know how to power on the iMacs, let alone use the Command key to pick the OS....
Also, I wanted to send you a personal congratulatory note - you came in here, explained what you do, what you did and why you did without ever *once* sounding like a fanboy. My sincere and deepest gratitude for keeping it on the up and up.