[sdavis83]

In my personnel opinion windows 2000 is more reliable and more secure than XP especially with SVC pack 4, XP is much more user friendly however. Its 6 to 1/2 dozen or the other. XP is very suseptable to spyware, more so than 2000. XP Svc Pack 2 has caused thousands of problems, yet none for others. If you go with Xp you have to be prepared to take care of it. Most of the spyware out there was written for Windows XP. I have two personnel machines at home, 1 with XP and 1 with win2k. The XP is more maintanance, but easier to use. the 2k is more stable yet can't do alot of things that xp can. Don't know if this helps but its another opinion. It all depends.