LOL! Talk about out of my league! Read the edit BTW. Good points, but I kinda do care 'bout them purty graphics.
Wondered about the same thing when I first heard it a year ago, turns out I can get a lot of free MS thing from it. Other then Office, bastard.
As far as I can remember, win2k as the same look as win98 so you wouldn't be loosing anything. Of course, if you can find a [few -assuming you intend to use it on more then one PC with the home version] cheap copy of winXP, then there's no reason why you wouldn't want it...