It came with ME.
It's leaving with ME and only ME (except for the MEPIS and Ubuntu stuff). No money is changing hands. It's just going to be a very, very long term loan. ;-)
ME came preinstalled with the CABs in a subdirectory and a recovery partition. It's leaving the same way.
I don't think MS's lawyers will be bothering me. Unless I'm missing something?
Cheers,
Scott.