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I had written a step by step awhile ago. Here it is. Skip down to the part where it talks about adding a drive and keeping the old drive. Here

It shouldn't. The only reason it would is if your network settings weren't set correctly. Anytime you leave it to the pc to configure anything, it will be slow.

Stepping back is simple. Take a WinME bootdisk, (or any DOS Boot Disk) and format the drive. After doing that, install ME as normal. Should be a piece of cake. Only minor hitch could be if he used NTFS. If he has no idea what this is, then he probably didn't use it. I can tell you how to handle...

Sure, again I feel this is a OS issue, not hardware. So what I would do to confirm this, is get a spare HD, (Hopefully you have one) and test a basic install. No peripherals except video. See if it works then. Then one by one install parts till the problem resurfaces.

No more difficult than networking any other MS OS.

Well, this is tough. Did you install this on your home PC? Because the address you are giving is a uninversity address. If the PC is behind the Uninversity firewall, this wont work unless you know the admin. The only way you can get people to connect to your PC is if you can control the outside...

If you go to display properties, check the screen saver section. There is a check box to turn the monitor off after x minutes of inactivity. Check that.

More than likely, this is not a hardware issue. What I would do is go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com and update your XP. Also, make sure you have that latest motherboard drivers from your MB manufacturor.