If it weren't for non-official drivers, my AIW Radeon wouldn't be working perfectly - as it is now. I'm using the 3286 drivers off the 8500DV installation CD. No other drivers work properly in WinXP for me! I've seen so many people suffer through horrible experiences with ATI because they went with official drivers that were so broken you tend to think ATI's driver department has no quality control.
Whoever's making the decisions for ATI should, in the future, always choose the opposite of what they think they should be doing.