Keep 98se,I use it on all four of my boxes,look at it,most of the bugs are out of se,me will have at least a year ot two of patches and fixes still to go,and really in my opinion me is for newbies it's just 98 with ie 5.5 and some other multimedia enhancements that i have in se anyway.and home networking is just as friendly in 98se.keep se.