Why must it be this way?

Have I mentioned I hate Vista?

I typically bring my personal laptop into work, and use it to connect remotely to my work desktop. Makes it easy to refer to things in meetings, and it's more comfortable for my hand and arm.

When I got back from vacation, I had a ton of trouble connecting to my work computer; turns out my personal computer was storing an old IP address somewhere.

Well, last night Vista decided I needed to apply updates to my laptop. Lo and behold, this morning, once AGAIN I not only couldn't connect to the work network initially, because some of my security settings had gotten blown away, but I was also unable to connect to my work computer by name again.

Sheesh. I HATE Vista. I miss my nice, stable XP.