Larry,

I am have two computers. 96SE and XP OS's. 98 is like an old shoe. Comfortable to wear and you hate to give it up. I use it with my 7000 for certain operations. I do not clutter it with many other programs. Only those that apply to the keyboard and find I can accomplish my tasks better than using the XP OS and comfortably (like the old shoe). Less hangups than the XP.

I do not know what the Pro XP is like but the Home version was directed to new computer users.
The first thing I did was change the windows to Classic and get away with all of the comics.

XP, I use for photography, the Internet and other publishing tasks.

Both operating systems have their good points, neither is perfect.....what is.

To each his own,

Fran in Florida