Glad to hear that you got it sorted.

FWIW, my HTPC that doubles as my only gaming machine runs Win2k. Black&White, Quake3 and RTCW all run fine, as does the (now free) original GTA. Maybe there is a mild performance hit, but I prefer stability any day. (And NTFS is _so_ much better than FAT/FAT32). The only thing that I did have issues with was the BF1942 demo not running. I assume they fixed that in the released version.