and not only that, mobo's usually come with an internal thing for 2 more usb ports... it fill up one of the empty pci slots, not physically but just the end of the case.. lol, i don't think i'm saying that right.. but you should be looking at 10 usb total
don't use the version of vista that has been cracked it isn't all its hyped up to be. all it will do is use a bunch of resources and slow down your gaming, all so it can look "pretty" like mac osx
honestly i plan on going to Linux before i go to vista