I do agree that 98 SE is a reliable OS. I now have W2K on my daughter's machine and have recently loaded XP Home on my own. I've never had any problems with W2K and don't know why I went for XP except that I got the full version for $100 c(less than I payed for W2K which was $150).

I haven't had a chance to play with XP much as I can't get the VIA master bus IDE drivers to load. They won't load off the CD and the ones from Biostar's website (I'm using a M7VIB) won't load either. XP says it can't find the darn things, anybody have any ideas?