So... I gave up on Wubi. I figured it wasn't worth the risk, and now I'm stuck with a new problem. For some time now, XP has been crashing, firstly explorer, and that takes the debugger (Dr. Watson) along with it. It seemingly happens when I try and copy or delete files, and it's more or less a Russian roulette. I have no idea when it'll happen.

Here's the question:

I have both XP and Vista installed on my first IDE (~160GB in size, ~80GB a piece). I have a ghosted image of just XP (made before I decided upon Vista), and I am just going to wipe the XP partition, and reimage it with said ghost. Will this screw up my Vista install, or will everything be okay? I have two other options. Screw Vista and wipe the entire physical drive clean, then use the ghost, or build a slipstreamed XP install and still wipe the drive clean... What would be the best course of action?

I could bypass this altogether though, if anyone knows what the hell is happening with explorer. Only thing I can think of is that I have the uxtheme patch/hack installed, and that is messing shit up. But beyond that, I'm dumbfounded.