Its best to rip your vista image to hdd first, then make a copy of that image and save that as backup.
So start of with 2 folders 1 backup-folder and 1 to strip-down-folder.
This to avoid ripping vista to hdd each time you screw up a vLite version
I didn't understand this straightaway,
you need to save the original image to, say, "Vista-original" and then copy it again to, say, "vista-lite". When you point VLite to the folder point it to the "vista-lite" folder since what you will have there when vlite does its stuff is the trimmed down version of vista and all the other files have been deleted.
OK this afternoon (10 Dec) did the Vlite and also the "death" tweaks and it worked no problems, just had to do the windows activation over the phone.
Now for the listening