After I built a new system with Windows 7, my ability to build AM games has been at a near standstill. It doesn't help when the opportunity to work on AM is scarce!
I had to build a duel boot system on my work laptop using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. After that experience, I've decided to do the same with my Windows 7 machine, by adding XP. The nice thing is, you don't have to add an actual partition to your hard drive, you can create a virtual hard drive. If anyone is interested on how to do this, just let me know. I think this will help get me going again. I tried using Virtual PC on Win7, but it isn't completely compatable to XP, which is too bad because you can work between windows 7 and XP at the same time.