Actually, 98 Second Edition improved many problems with 98. I recently upgraded my newer machine to XP and the main reason for the upgrade was for stability. I have yet to see the dreaded blue screen of death since installed and there are other other advantages. My older P4 is still running 98SE only because I'm too cheap to buy another copy of XP. My old P4 with 98SE recognizes the USB cable and it runs AFPD but very slow. If you are not running SE you might want to upgrade to that. Good luck.

Marty