If you had to have your ultimate software utility, what would it be? ( you may just get your wish! )

You don't need windows to run windows apps. Wine, a windows compatibilty layer  for linux, is a handy alternative. Some distros can run more programs under wine than others.Anyway, download it at http://www.winehq.org.
 

is there a specific feature you are looking for or the whole thing?

well if it is a standard system utility that will be "grep" or "xargs" in Linux/Unix.
If you meant a security tool then that would be either netcat, or one of its derivatives "cryptocat, socat, linkcat,.etc"

Now for C&A I love the tool, <paranoia> however it is not open source, and i am wondering if enough security auditing is done on the tool itself, that is the tool can be used as a sniffer, and password cracker. that's a lot of parsing, and possibilities of buffer overflows. it is usually run as an admin, so any vurnability on it while using it could be disastrous </end paranoia>

I guess i will let it pass and chose metasploit for a security frame work.
for a security distro it will be BackTack, well i do consider it a utility