Well guess what, you are bang on the nose here. I took a Mac KB/Mouse and they worked fine. When I got to the Device management through the control panel, both the PS/2 mouse and keyboard reported "Error condition 32" saying tha the driver had been removed since it was not needed. Eh??? What planet do these bloody people at M$ live on where they build that capability into the system? Both were still regarded as active, and the 101 key keyboard was seen as an 84 key keyboard, which raised my suspicions. I couldn't see how to manually install a piece of hardware (you have to use the wizard, and if a device is installed and apparently working, of course it won't be detected....).

What I did do was remove the devices and then disconnect the USB stuff and reboot, expecting the system to find the PS/2 kb/mouse, but of course it didn't. Sigh, this is getting frustrating. Anyone know how to manually select and install drivers on W2K?