That's good to hear blaman.. it was probably windows screwing up somehow. Btw, now that you've got it working you can put VSync back on. It'll cap your fps to the refresh rate of the monitor, thus saving resources and resulting in smoother gameplay :)
Make sure you've got View Shadows enabled too.. wouldn't want to miss out on the lovey dynamic soft shadows!
TMAN, vehicles are in development as we speak. They'll be released in the next major version (v0.6) in a month or so. Should be insaaaaane.. I'm going to try make them drive the same as vehicles in GTA2.. except you'll be able to do drivebys and shoot out of them as well. Think cop car, ferarri, steam roller, oil tanker, jeep, limousine, tank... ;)