What's your host OS, there, Jim?
Running Redhat 9 dual-boot with Win2K, but I pretty much kept native Win2K for some video tools that I do not use frequently. I run Win2K under VMWare and have my /home Samba mounted so that I can mount it from the virtual machine. Likewise, although I don't use a browser much in the VM, it is pointed at the proivoxy/squid proxy on the host machine.
FWIW, I sprang for the recent VMWare 4 upgrade and feel like I got my $100 worth. Lots of small things seem better. I tend to park VMWare on a designated "Windows" desktop and leave it running, so I may have to succumb to the temptation to add another 512MB stick of RAM...
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Jim
'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.