I forgot how fucked up win98se is, I just spent 6 hours tonight and about 9 hours yesterday night working on my bros 1 ghz laptop trying to install a cut down version of win98se cause the toshiba laptop software installs SO MUCH FUCKING SHIT! into the taskbar that it runs like a 486 DX66. I can't get over why these Compaq and other companies install so much shit and make it damn near impossible to remove without finding a new version of windows and then finding every seperate laptop driver off the net. pisses me off.
I installed XP on my 2 new computers 2.4 ghz
and after a perfect no problem install it found everything and as soon as it was first booted up I checked IE6 and the DSL had already been configuired and the internet was working right off the bat.
Anyone who disses how much we pay for WIndows can GFY cause XP rocks big time.
Oh your networking problems (sorry for my rant)
I've had problems networking win2000 in the past the win98 cpu never connected to the win2000 and since win2000 is the same as winxp good luck
When I was networking the two XP computers together I used the built in networking wizard on the XP CD. That worked between XP to XP it seemed like it might work onto older computers too.
Networking problems are such a pain
Sammy