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Thanks for going through all that trouble. It's late now, so I'll go over those in detail tomorrow. My only comment is that I was going to go with Windows 7, unless I hear good reasons to choose 8 instead.

Win8 advantages: Hibernation works better. leads to better boot speeds. smaller memory imprint. some games get better FPS from win8
disadvantages: on installation, there will be alot of functions you probably dont want. you have to turn them off. also takes some time to make Win8 seem like win7 through addons(e.g start shell). AMD drivers also slightly picky on win8.

I just put win8 as a place holder. if you want to use win7, feel free to use it