I've personnally never had any issues with the BSOD since Win98' way back when.
I've had the "Stop" issue after I tried to install W2K myself... but since then I've just had my tech do it all for me, and I've had bulletproof box's ever since.
Xp serves me well now
Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
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