>I'm finding that the 98 system is bombing out more and more as
>time goes on.   :(

 MP> I have found that, once an XP system gets messed up, it is a lot
 MP> harder to fix than a 98SE system.

you want to see "hard to fix"??  install XP to a nonstandard
directory on a drive other than C:  ;)

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