I did a couple of trials.  I was wondering what 'savedefault' was doing
in my Vista entry in menu.lst, it shouldn't be there so I removed it.
And to my surprise that seemed to solve the problem!  So I rebooted once
more and added it again from the Grub gui at boot and got the error:
"Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS." Rebooted without
'savedefault' and it works.  All very strange to me.  What does
'savedefault' have to do with this behaviour?  Way beyond my
understanding.

This is the entry after upgrade (that doesn't work):
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda3
title           Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root            (hd0,2)
makeactive
savedefault
chainloader     +1


This is the one that works:
title           Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root            (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

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Windows 2000 hangs on start when grub is used
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109672
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