Yep dont want vista but if you have a pc with vista on it, partition hard drive and get either home or pro from ebay or wherever and install.
Use xp for your gaming and internet and as for dix 10 games the pc is dead as a games machine thank's to software houses demanding you upgrade to play next game.
Pro more stable than home as i use both and home is cack, and as for vista home premium it's a update of home and does not have all the security features of, vista buisness.
Vista will need an update by nov dec sp1 patch as vista has lot's fault's microsoft has to fix, plus the hacker's are having fun with it.
Now i tested 98 again and the last updates for it contain sabo code to corrupt 98 and make it unstable as checking with couple hackers they agreed, so you use 98 with so many updates keep it stable.
As from next year xp home will become more unstable forcing many home user's to vista up.
Let's hope the chinese goverment takes linux and makes it into a free full program that will run xp software, as i trust the chinese more than gates and american goverment team up.