Hey Mango,
i had been running NU2001 with winME for about a year. IMHO you must think of the Norton as a "communist regime" for your computer- let it do as it sees fit- thats why we paid the extra $$ for the Utilities... BUT be careful with Nortons WinDoctor! i found that it would go off and recommend to delete files that the OS still needed, unfortunately it took me a while to figure this out and my winME became a mess quicker than it normally does
now i have installed NU2002 on win2000, but i did not install winDoctor nor Clean Sweep... A more stable OS for sure, but i have also removed Norton's ability to delete parts of my OS, or at least 'recommend' that i do it...
..monkey see, monkey do...
i agree with aisleman- go with the NU defrag
HJ