multiple svchost.exe is not an issue, i too am running vista and 12 of them running and all arent taking any cpu and very little memory. They shouldn be a problem.
have done this now and 5 hours later things look ok
did a reboot and ran spybot again and this time ONLY tracking cookies came up as problems, not one registry error which is nice to see.
great advice!!! i shut that one down and nothing happened at first but then 2 minutes the 'start panel' at the bottom of the screen changed to the windows 98 look, but only for 20 seconds then it refreshed itself to look like winXP.
otherwise all is well.
gonna do a reboot and see if that svchost comes back.
thanks!