Thank you all for the suggestions and the welcome. I like to think that I am fairly good with PC's and keep mine fine tuned I have autoupdates turned on for every wednesday at 3am, but I know this doesn't get those optional updates all of the time.

Here are my specs

I run windows vista home premium
CPU: Athon 64 3500+
2 gig ram
geforce 8800 GTS
motherboard is MSI K8N Diamond

I usually have the latest drivers or at least one driver earlier for most of my hardware. I read a thing on the internet that said the music in UO can cause some hitching, is this still the case? I did find a download to the 'legacy' client, so I went ahead and got that and installed it I will probably get ML setup today and give the game a fair chance, I don't think I gave it a fair chance during the 14 day trial because I was feeling overwhelemed with all of the complexities of starting out.

There were a few things I read for getting started out, make a money maker to begin with, either a wood worker of some sort (capentry or bower) or a blacksmith/miner. I'm not much of a crafter since in most games, like vanguard or everquest(1 and 2) and others it has been a massive boring grind, so im not sure if I am in favor of making a crafter here. I also read that paladin is probably the easiest and cheapest to start out with.

As far as that goes, I will check the links posted here and when I have more questions, which I am sure I Will, I will continue this thread, or hopefully get some answers in game *smile.

Thanks everyone.