I was under the impressing that there's a patch for 98SE to allow it to read/write from/to the NTFS disk? I've only been able to find the patch for 2000 and not for 98SE. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I can't really help you with the rest, but I can tell you that Win2000 does not need a patch of any sort to enable it to write to a NTFS disk. NTFS is Win2000's preferred file system type.