Linux guy working in a Windows desktop

After >7 years of working on my own Linux machine, I now have to work on a Windows XP laptop for my new employer.

It's been almost a week and a half now, and I think I'm starting to get used to it (as far as a Gnome user can be), thanks to the following tools, that I had to install in order to survive and not getting mad:

• Firefox: for obvious reasons, the first thing is to get rid of IE.

• gVim: thank $DEITY there is a windows port for Vim.

• Putty: of course, I still need to log into several Linux machines.

• mRemote: its a wrapper around putty to handle several sessions, and also supports RDP and other protocols.

• WinSCP: just because mRemote doesn't support SCP.

• muCommander: to browse the file system in a decent way. It also supports SCP, but I haven't been able to customize it properly (opening files with gVim), so I'm not using it really.

• XChat: its always cool to hang around IRC.
  

• Pidgin: to deal with the social mess of chats/contacts out there.
  

There is also a GEdit for windows, but I seldom use it.