I'm no expert, but aren't "upgrades" almost by definition graftings onto a pervious Windows, as opposed to the scrub method of install?
It took me by surprise too, but you could use the upgrade disc to perform a clean install (if you Google something like 'vista clean install upgrade disc' I'm sure you'll find references)...
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