Cant load a new rom with vista?

[Supermanwoot]

So I put my phone in the cradle, run the ROM and as soon as it switches my phone over to bootloader it hangs at "getting information from device" (which it already got the info from my device one time before) and then windows mobile device center crashes and the phone is stuck in bootloader and I have to get out of it.

How the hell do you flash your phone with Vista?

And after I figure out that, what is the latest and greatest windows mobile 5 ROM out there? (6.1 is just too slow on this device IMO)

ps: the rom i was using was a 6.1 rom... could be the problem. But still, what is the latest/best WM5 rom?

edit: ok its like I can't flash the ROM anywhere... I got v1.04 bootloader and no matter what I try it seems like I get a gathering device info error or others...