New to Macs, huge setup, and questions if it will work

I have been wanting to do this very ambitious cross-platform home networking/home entertainment setup ever since bootcamp.
Here goes:
-Macbook with Vista Home Premium/Ultimate (w/ media center)
-New Airport Extreme Base Station for wireless w/connected:
-External HD that I can access and exchange files between OSX and Vista/XP
-Printer that can be accessed by both OSX and V/XP
-Vizio GV47LF HDTV w/1080p
-Xbox 360 Elite w/ wireless adapter
I want to be able to use Media Center in Vista on the Macbook to stream all of my multimedia to the 360 and onto the Vizio plasma tv, all over the Airport. I would like to store the multimedia on the external drive so that both OSX and V/XP can access it, as well as the Xbox 360 for "living room/theater" type of viewing. I am hoping that this is going to be possible but I do not know how compatible Vista is with bootcamp/macs or how compatible all of that will be with the Mac w/ Vista to the Airport to the 360 over wireless
Thanks for the help
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Ok, I will say what I think but don't bet anything on it, because I dont have this setup let alone an xbox 360 I can't say for anything for sure but:
-Macbook with Vista Home Premium/Ultimate (w/ media center)
I've heard of vista working with it but I can't remember for sure if it was with bootcamp specifically or with parallels. I'm pretty sure it was bootcamp though. As for basic compatability with a mac vista works better on a mac then many pcs.
-New Airport Extreme Base Station for wireless w/connected:
This I can see to work with almost 100% certainty
-External HD that I can access and exchange files between OSX and Vista/XP
This I can also see to work very easily
-Printer that can be accessed by both OSX and V/XP
Printer sharing with all of them very likely
-Vizio GV47LF HDTV w/1080p
I don't see a wireless card in this so unless you streaming to the xbox first then to here I dont know how that works. Unless this is direct connect to the computer or to apple tv.
-Xbox 360 Elite w/ wireless adapter
This part is sketchy at best but may be possible, it does have wireless card so possibly.
Anyway thats what I think but as I said can't say for sure. Hope its somewhat helpful.

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