hmm. yeah..

well at least theres hope, in the beta driver it states:

Release Highlights:

* Adds support for GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB
* Beta driver for NVIDIA SLI™ support for GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS GPUs
* This driver supports the following features:
o Single GPU support
+ DirectX 9 support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
+ DirectX 10 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
+ OpenGL support for GeForce 6/7/8 series GPUs
o NVIDIA SLI support
+ DirectX 9 support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
+ OpenGL support for GeForce 8800 GPUs
* DirectX 9 and OpenGL NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7 series GPUs and DirectX 10 NVIDIA SLI support for GeForce 8800 GPUs will be available in a future driver
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* Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issues

...so they DO plan on supporting it. i will be upgrading my graphics system anyhow in the next few months..which will probably be 7 series.

thanks for the help.