Hi Michelle,
I'm basically in the same boat as you ... I'll be attempting to do stuff with PWS and Win98. I've got Rick's book and I've installed PWS and I've been lurking on the forum on his website. So far, that's as far as I've gotten (haven't really dug into the book yet, so I haven't even tried examples yet ... that's the next step.)
I'll be curious as to your progress if you beat me to a solution (which at the rate I'm going, you probably will).
-Bonnie