I can only sympathise with you.
I bought WIN Me and updated? my machine. I never saw the Blue Screen Of Death more times. Eventually I Fdisked the lot, and re installed WIN 98 Se.
I do find the 'Hologram' Cd quite attractive as a coaster however.
I dread the though of installing a copy of Win XP (eXtra Problems) if anyone ever finds a crack for the 'Phone Home XP' part of the installation.