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I now have MATLAB 6.5 running on my VISTA laptop!

However my solution is to download and install Microsoft
Virtual PC
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx)
then install a copy of Windows XP into a new virtual machine. 
It is then possible to install MATLAB 6.5 within that VM. 

Virtual PC is quite good in that the VM can share resources
with the full PC, including disks and network. Even sound
replay works (after a fashion). You can suspend and restore
the VM quite quickly, so you don't need to reboot it each
time you want to run MATLAB. Virtual PC is free, but of
course you do need a copy of XP.

Mark Huckvale