>>The last OS change I *attempted* was ME and I'll spare you the gory details. Needless to say I've gone back to 98SE and it works very well, thank you! The lessons learned from that "experience" is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." You'll get more sleep.<<
Ok, maybe I was lucky with Me, but I *do* believe that there was no luck at all involved with XP. The OS coders at MS have truly done an outstanding job with this one.
Try this...if you have a partition with at least 2gig free, install XP on it and dual boot. Just boot from the XP cd and tell it where you want to install the OS. I did that for months in the beginning of the beta test, and it worked great. After Beta 2 it XP all the time, and I've never looked back. If for some reason, you don't like XP, you can simply delete it from the other partition (delete these directories: windows, documents and settings, and program files), and edit boot.ini to remove any reference to it, and you're back to '98.
Trust me, you won't be disappointed.
--Greenie
**6 miles SSE KSJC**