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We have only ventured to install XP on one workstation. Actually, it was a Dell that came pre-installed with XP. There was some fuss with some programs at the beginning (and I think you'll find public opinion on XP evenly split, possibly tilted slightly to the hate it crowd), but it seems to be stable and working now.

HOWEVER, the damn machine is a 1.4 Ghz with 512 (I believe) of RAM. And to me it is slower than snot on a freezing doorknob. BH (the employee) thinks it is great because of what I see as some minor faetures, but there is no way on this world that I would put up with that slowness. Then again, I am not a "have a thousand windows" open person. I might have five at the most, and not for any length of time. BH will have a bagillion gagillion open, and with XP you really cant tell, because one IE browser will show in the task bar, but you may have 20 instances of it open. You click on that one (or mouse over it, not for sure) and a window pops up that shows all the instances. So, my data with XP might be skewed as I havent really told her to get off her workstation and let me test it out.

Regarding a clean install on an older machine, dunno. But my experience says never try an upgrade.

What kind of processor / ram? Also, 10k disks are not?

This is a PIII mobile at 1.13gig. 256 meg ram. Just two months old. I'm not having any problems, and I don't really know what the advantages would be with the upgrade. Just from reading the install instructions it seems to be an involved process, so I know I'm letting myself in for a day of tweaking.

Since the box is so new, installed software is no problem, and I plan to save all my data to zips. The question again is are the advantages in xp worth it?

Thanks and Be well...