Parallels Desktop 3.0, Vista, and OS 10.6.4

I was running Vista fine with Parallels 3.0 Desktop on OS 10.5.
I recently upgraded to OS 10.6.4 and now when I try to open my Parallels session it says I cannot run it on 10.6.4, which makes sense.
My question is: If I get Parallels 5.0, is it as easy as installing this software, i.e., will my Windows Vista partition be as I left it? Or will I have to redo everything and even reinstall Vista?

Installing the upgrade will not affect your Windows system.
+For future reference you should address questions about Parallels to their tech support forum. These forums are for Apple products.+

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    1M 20s 21s
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    Memory Test Suite N/A N/A
    Graphics Test Suite N/A N/A
    HDD Test Suite N/A N/A
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    Multithread Test 1 / Audio Comp N/A N/A
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    File Comp N/A N/A
    File DeComp N/A N/A
    File Encrypt N/A N/A
    File Decrypt N/A N/A
    Image DeComp N/A N/A
    Audio Comp N/A N/A
    Multithread Test 1 / File Comp N/A N/A
    Multithread Test 1 / File Encrypt N/A N/A
    Multithread Test 2 / File DeComp N/A N/A
    Multithread Test 2 / File Decrypt N/A N/A
    Multithread Test 2 / Audio DeComp N/A N/A
    Multithread Test 2 / Image DeComp N/A N/A
    Memory Read - 16 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Read - 8 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Read - 192 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Read - 4 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Write - 16 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Write - 8 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Write - 192 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Write - 4 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Copy - 16 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Copy - 8 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Copy - 192 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Copy - 4 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Lat - Rnd 16 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Lat - Rnd 8 MB N/A N/A
    Memory Lat - Rnd 192 kB N/A N/A
    Memory Lat - Rnd 4 kB N/A N/A
    Transparent Windows N/A N/A
    Graphics Memory - 64 Lines N/A N/A
    Graphics Memory - 128 Lines N/A N/A
    WMV Video Playback N/A N/A
    3D - Fill Rate Multi Texturing N/A N/A
    3D - Polygon Throughput Multiple Lights N/A N/A
    3D - Pixel Shader N/A N/A
    3D - Vertex Shader N/A N/A
    HDD - XP Startup N/A N/A
    HDD - Application Loading N/A N/A
    HDD - General Usage N/A N/A
    HDD - Virus Scan N/A N/A
    HDD - File Write N/A N/A
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    Physical / Logical CPUs "1 Physical, 1 Logical" "1 Physical, 2 Logical"
    MultiCore 1 Processor Core Multicore 2 Processor Cores
    HyperThreading N/A N/A
    Graphics Card Generic VGA Generic VGA
    Graphics Driver Parallels Video Driver VMWare SVGA II
    Co-operative adapters No No
    DirectX Version 9.0c 9.0c
    System Memory 640 MB 640MB
    Motherboard Manufacturer N/A Intel Corporation
    Motherboard Model N/A 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
    Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows XP
    Passmark Parallels VMWare
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    CPU - Floating Point Math (MOPS) 280.46 588.33 <--
    CPU - Find Prime Numbers (OPS) 446.37 676.99 <--
    CPU - SSE/3DNow! (MMPS) 2118.56 4737.13 <--
    CPU - Comp (KB/s) 2994.16 5952.34 <--
    CPU - Encrypt (MB/s) 18.09 36.27 <--
    CPU - Image Rotation (IRPS) 598.21 1184.41 <--
    CPU - String Sorting (TPS) 2118.81 3672.59 <--
    Graphics 2D - Lines (TPS) 220.71 25.15 <--
    Graphics 2D - Rectangles (TPS) 189.74 61.8 <--
    Graphics 2D - Shapes (TPS) 39.54 13.71 <--
    Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text (OPS) 190.39 75.88 <--
    Graphics 2D - GUI (OPS) 439.77 63.72 <--
    Memory - Allocate Small Block (MB/s) 2533.83 2526.21
    Memory - Read Cached (MB/s) 1960.5 1906.27
    Memory - Read Uncached (MB/s) 1871.79 1826.08
    Memory - Write (MB/s) 1687.81 1545.43
    Memory - Large RAM (OPS) 60.99 46.37
    Disk - Sequential Read (MB/s) 102.11 76.45 <--
    Disk - Sequential Write (MB/s) 58.33 50.9
    Disk - Rnd Seek + RW (MB/s) 51.4 40.4
    CPU Mark 711.08 1432.72 <--
    2D Graphics Mark 743.31 176.5 <--
    Memory Mark 599.94 580.38
    Disk Mark 766.11 606.7
    PassMark Rating 557.27 637.35<br>

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