Well guys,
I went the drastic route, which I think was about my only choice at this point... I deleted all my partitions, formatted the whole thing as one big part, then restarted with the win2k cd, deleted that part, and created the partitions that I wanted during setup...
I logged in ok, renamed the administrator as the username that I wanted, and now have full access... I can use windows update, etc... That was the biggest problem... I don't know what went wrong last time, but I think it was a bad install(maybe something to do with partitions and the boot record), because this time, everything installed in less than 1/2 hour, and it hasn't crashed after 6 hours...(that was a big problem, along with protected system files being overwritten)...
Anyway, I'm going to monitor it for a while and see if all goes well, but so far she's looking good
Thanks a LOT for all your help...
And I have to say a cool saying that I saw:
"In a World without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
Anyway, Good Luck...............
Steve