BoeingBoy
MicroSoft are also having problems with ME,
they even had an on line webcast on the 4th
of this month titled "Troubleshooting poor performance in Windows ME"
I missed it but these files might help:-
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q267/2/88.asp and q275/0/03.asp
and q261/7/66.asp
and q273/0/17.asp
and q264/5/05.asp