Today, for no reason other than to piss me off, it dies.

I can't help but laugh since I feel that way when my comp does the same thing to me...
You know win2k is the most tempromental OS ever programed, and it likes to let me know this from time to time.
Sounds like my ex-wife.
I will say one thing, I really like XP, also if you have an old HD put that in there and back things up, but you probably thought about that, GL