The 'advice' to use an NT based O.S. might be reasonable but the premise of
Windows98 being "crappy" with "poor history" is nonsense.

Do you know at least anything about the innerworkings of MS's OSes?

It's history is
so 'poor' and 'crappy' that MS was forced to extend support for years after
the original EOF date, which will *finally* occur on July 11, 2006

Lots of stupid people around which demand this :-)

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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation

http://www.storagecraft.com