Many people(Including me) have had horrid problems with ME. It was just thrown together with no real plan.

I have heard nothing but troubles from ME. Never have used it (or seen it used) either though. Maybe thats a good thing (lol).

I had a teacher that had a laptop w/ me preinstalled. He upgraded to XP like 3 daysafter getting it. His HD crashed and I(the nice person I am) fixed it for him then it took us like 3 weeks to get XP to install over ME.

You were preinstalled on his laptop?! But seriously, ME is one of the worst Microsoft products ever, and that's saying a lot, considering it's Microsoft. Mentioning it in tech-savvy cultures meets with almost universal scorn, as you can see here.

I had no choice in the matter of upgrading to ME, since I had lots of info on that laptop I could not get off of it with a mem drive. I tried several supposed drivers for it, but none would allow it to be recgnized correctly. But when I upgraded to ME, it instantly recognized my 1gig flash card, which was a god send, because everything I tried before had failed. Now I can get all the stuff off of the laptop I want...

And I have yet to have had a bad experience with ME... It works just fine on my system.

Huh, you got lucky then. Well, I suppose it's not bad for everyone then, just a bit buggy for some.

Then you obviously have only heard about ME and not 2000

Seriously tho, the 9x series (that includes ME), has the worst networking support of pretty much any OS ever (particularly TCP/IP) The NT series (includes 2000 and XP) have infinitely better networking. So I would go along with the others in suggesting an upgrade to 2000

before an upgrade to 2K though, do a back-up, incase something goes wrong (you are completely changing the kernel you know).