I had a complete system crash 2 weeks ago (thx god I mirrored my Poser-Directory...) and had to decide: install 98 again or buy XP Home. Hmm, I bought XP (new version, including the SR1) because I wanted to have the better memory management. Installation was very smooth and I am working now two weeks around 10 hours a day with xp. I am not a friend of microsoft, but I have to admit that xp runs much smoother than win98 and is much more stable. Yes, you have to search a few things the first days but you get used to it very fast. No software-problems till now with Poser4Pro, Cinema 4D7, Photoshop 7, Bryce 5 etc. All running fine.