Another oddity.

System Volume Information, 8 individually (not meaningful) named files that take up 5 GB of space. Not only that, I can access SVI. Don't ask me why, as I haven't been able to access it before? I can't view any of those files, Access denied, but at least for once, I am able to see what is in there (in Vista). (There are other files in the directory/subdirectories, but there sizes are negligible).

So System Restore appears to be totally different then what you can see in XP. (Guess that means that I'll now have to see what an actual restore presents me, information wise).