To all of you kind and helpful types who tried to help me get past a really bad Win98 install ...patio, willyW, ianbell, Broni, Sid, Daniel1212, quaxo... Thanks.
I really appreciate all of you.
Unfortunately, sometimes you just have to admit it when you're licked. I'm licked. A couple of times I got so frustrated trying to get WIN98 to behave that I started to smack the computer around. How pointless is that?
Went out and got a bootable XP CD and had the little sucker humming like a top on the first try. Even got it to work with my full 2 gigs of RAM. All the drivers for my graphics card and motherboard are loaded up and work just as they're supposed to.
Thanks again, folks.