Clean windows install - losing any software?

I'm going to do a clean install as I upgrade from Vista 32-bit (ack!) to Windows 7 64-bit. Am I going to lose anything I won't be able to get via System Update? Anything that shipped with my Thinkpad I should care about? Like Roxio? 
Will the install process allow me to take care of the service partition? Or do I need to handle this manually?
I've grabbed the most essential drivers and will let system update handle the rest. Anything else I should do before I start?
Thanks for the advice!

Hello,
If you have not done so, you should make a set of recovery discs for the Microsoft Windows Vista installation on your ThinkPad.  That way, if you ever do have a problem and need to revert to the original operating system you shall be able to do so, with all of the ThinkVantage utilities and Lenovo supplied software intact.
As AndyP noted, some of the software supplied with your ThinkPad is not available for download using the ThinkVantage System Update program, such as DVD viewing software.  After reinstalling it from wherever you backed up the C:\SWTOOLS directory, you should be able to update it as you would any other Lenovo-supplied software through the ThinkVantage System Update program, though.
My personal preference is to run the the ThinkVantage System Update program before running Microsoft Windows Update on a newly-configured ThinkPad as a precaution against the Microsoft update service installing the wrong drivers, but I cannot say that I have had that problem with any recent computer or version of Microsoft Windows.
Regards,
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