The Answer! :smile::smile::smile::smile::smile:
Alrighty then! Well after a couple hours of messing around with this I
decided to call good old Microsoft support and pay the $259 smackers

to get their "blessed" help. Spent three hours on the phone with
two techs to eventually find a solution for a relatively simple problem
in the end.
Here is their summary:

::*1 - verified Sharing permissions and added System & Authenticated
Users*::
::*2 - verified NTFS permissions, added System & Authenticated Users
*::
::*3 - gave Modify, Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, Write
permissions*::
::As it was I only had the Administrator, the (specific) User, and my
\"IT\" account set in the Share & NTFS permissions. Which has worked
fine for my XP profiles. But hey apparently Vista is more picky

. ::
::Good Luck all you MoeFoes who have dared to add Vista to our
environments.::
::Hope this helps. Cheers,::
::Lord Hobbes::
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Hobbes