Maximizer and Windows XP

We upgraded out machines to Windows XP and Office 2000 while we were on Maximizer 5. What a disaster! Unfortunately Max 5 (and therefore also Max 4) was written long before XP and Office 2000. The biggest problem that we had (and this may depend on the version of MS Office you are using rather than the op. system) was that Maximizer would not talk to Word, which made all our Word templates useless. We also encountered a ton of problems integrating with Groupwise for email. Basically Maximizer worked OK on its own in an XP environment, but we could not get it to integrate with anything else. It was horrible! We have just upgraded to Max 7.5 this week, and so far (with the exception of a few vanishing emails) everything is working really well. I know this isn't what you want to hear, but based on my experience, if you are upgrading to XP (and particularly if you are using anything more recent than Office 97) I would push hard for the budget to upgrade Maximizer too. The new version is so much nicer anyway (and I think they have a half price deal on at the moment).
Zarina