Well, I've just bought a new PSU and put together enough parts to get the old dual-p2-333 up and running again. Has currently done 3 VLAR's, 2 on 17h45m and 3rd at 16h58m :Q with v3.08 under NT4. Since a normal wu under v3.03 takes 18h20m VLAR's isn't a problem.
Of course, downgrading this machine from win2k to NT4 was great for VLAR's under v3.03 also, but still you'll see marked improvement using v3.08 for the VLAR-crunching.