Upgrading to Vista

I have a ThinkPad X300 which came with XP Pro. My office desktop uses Vista and I'd like to upgrade the laptop to Vista so that I'll have a consistent environment.
I have created a rescue and recovery set of DVD's for the current system in case I want to go back to it. If I install Vista now, what about the ThinkVantage software that came with the system. Will that still work? Will I need to uninstall those things and then download the Vista versions from Lenovo to install, or can I just install the new versions over the old? Anyone have any experience in doing this who can give me any suggestions or heads up?
Thanks in advance,
Bill

There are different ways you can get that done. Personally I have had problems with Vista Business while upgrading so personally I'd do a clean install but if you want to upgrade the Vista install will tell you if you have software that's so incompatible that you must uninstall it first before upgrading to Vista. (ie. Daemon tools, McAfee VSE 8.0i, IBM DLA)
You don't have to install your OS using the Lenovo provided DVD in order to use the Thinkvantage suite of softwares. You could technically do a clean install of Vista Business, then go to the site and install System Update and allow that to install the software suite that is compatible with your new OS.

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