reason to never use windows 98

today i had a big reminder why i switch all my machines to windows xp ..i was working on a computer for one of my clients today they had bought a new video card and wanted me to put it in along with a ethernet card so i said sure and went to work because this machine was going to go to the children they wanted the machine wiped clean so i started with a reformat and reinstall of windows 98 se everything went well no problems not one thing then next i installed the new video card this also went with out a hitch the last thing i did was install.... the ethernet card ...from hell after i installed it the computer reconized the new hardware and asked for the driver to be installed i inserted the driver disk and it searches and tells me that it cannot find the drive i have it search again still cannot find it i point to the exact file it need still cannot find the driver so i go ahead with the installation and boot to windows i went online with my laptop downloaded the drivers that i need put it on a floppy with back to the computer inserted my floppy and i tried to reinstall the driver low and behold it worked so i restart and even before i get rebooted into windows i get an error in the bios saying that there were four files corrpt and it couldnt load a dll file so back to my laptop i spend three hour researching what these files are for and surprise surprise they are use for microsoft clients for networking so i have to go in and uninstall that and reinstall ok once more i have reboot i believe that at this time ive rebooted the machine about a million times by now afte the reboot the errors go away and everything seems to work i go to run the internet connection wizard and for some reason it brings up msn dialup sign up why me why me as im hitting my head on the desk so i find my way to the actual internet connection wizard and was able to finally get the machine on the internet and was able to finally get every thing working right and no more rebooting

...once again i hate windows 98