>>Okay. I hope to post back here in 45 minutes after my successful install of Windows 2000 (crosses fingers).
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>I notice it's been 7 1/2 hours since your post... fingers crossed for you here, too. Are you doing an upgrade, or a reformat & install from scratch? I'll be interested in your experience - I've got a Win98SE box sitting here that I'd like to upgrade to Win2K, too, but have never forced myself to make it a priority.

Cable modem is now working. Try to get USB and USB mouse working. Funny thing is that the optical mouse light comes on, so it is getting power from the USB port. Hmmm..

Sure is hard using the web without a keyboard. Discovery: cntrl-TAB cycles through the web pages frame then then to the address field. That took a while to find.