i appreciate your help sooo much, however this doesnt work.. it still says Invalid path .... also, i had to boot up with the old startup disk
Had to? ? why?
and then put in the winME disk... when starting up it did say "No cdrom driver selected"... is there any hope for this ? 
The probable reason that patio said above, "Pitch the old floppy and use the one i suggested along with the good advice given above."
is because whatever you are booting with - you call it "old startup disk" - is an unknown.
We don't know if it has the driver and proper set up for that driver on it.
That's the reason these folks are telling you to go to bootdisk.com and download what you need there. That way, they know what you are working with. For example : See above... you were asked if you selected the option to boot with CD-ROM support..... you haven't addressed that question yet. If you don't understand something like that when asked - quote it and ask for some more explanation.
If you don't know, or cannot find, what you need at bootdisk.com, to make a proper boot floppy disk, with CD rom support - then describe your problem with doing that, and we will try to guide you.
If you keep using some old disk that nobody knows just what is on it, it is frustrating not only to you, but to those advising you here.
And, I'm glad to see you started a thread here, instead of the PMs to me. This way you don't have to wait for just me to reply.
Hang in there.... don't get frustrated. The key is to understand and do exactly what you are told. Else.... it is wheel spinning and non-productive.
Review this thread, carefully. If there is some part of it you don't understand, that's ok. Just specifically say so, and we'll try to explain.
