>IMHO, I would stick with Win2K Professional and forget running Win98 or ME on the laptop unless you have a really compelling reason (games?).

Nope, Win2K works just as well for games, too, (which was my last reason to keep a Win98 partition). Well, except for the really lames ones that won't even try to install on Win2K. Just let me install it, and I take my chances, thank you very much.