My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

My favorite OS is XP Pro. Second to that lies ME which was my faithful steed
for quite some time. There are those who rant that it was a horrid OS and
that it was unstable. I'd managed to setup a full-time use box that stayed
up and running almost indefinately aside from reboots for software
installations or updates. I still have a number of ME boxes kicking about,
two of them are currently setup for use for beta testing or for bug
recreations. I live, for the most part, in my basement which I have come to
term my lab though it's hardly a lab in any sense of the traditional term
though many expiriments are undergone down here. Each week maybe a dozen
people will call with computer issues for me to troubleshoot and more often
then not I bring these PCs home to repair them here. I'd wager that, and I
have no decent method of keeping records, nearly 1/4 of them are ME boxes
with hardware or malware issues.

I did recently install ME on a 64 bit system and it was really very fast.
However, even though AMD was quite willing to run in 32 bit mode for no
reason I could fathom the drivers for a number of devices failed to work. I
have no idea why not as I had been under the impression that they would run
just fine, perhaps it was hardware-centric behavior? Either way it was an
impressive display of boot time. <g> The OS was speedy and opening anything
was a nearly instant process. The NIC, modem, sound, and some of the chipset
drivers failed to work. Graphics came through well enough though I was too
lazy to swap out components and try others I suspect I might have eventually
found some that worked in place of the devices which did not function.

Galen