Before wiping the original installation preinstalled by HP verify that XP drivers are even available first. If located try tossing XP on a spare first if you have one onhand to see how it will run for a few days. Yes that will take some time to only find that the system may be too new hardware wise seeing no XP support mainly the board itself.
Perhaps a better description of the problems being seen would be the first thing to see looked over better first before voiding the warranty unless seeing the dealer replace Vista with XP for you. tossing a second drive in to dual boot is another option. I was running XP Home and Pro along with Vista since it came out on the last build here.
For XP there actually four versions seeing Home, Professional, Proffessional 64bit, and the Media Center Edition of Professional. The last two came out in 2005. I would avoid the 64bit edition there since suffered greatly for the lack of driver support while the 64bit versions of Vista now are finally seeing that.
The Home edition was more multimedia geared while some preferred the Pro version there. MCE was the multimedia upgrade for the Pro edition there with the new Media Center seen first there and now in Vista.
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