Thanks for the advice, Roger.

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BTW, Windows Media Center Edition is essentially Windows XP Professional with a few multimedia add-ons. Give it a try before you fork over any more money to Microsoft.
Unfortunately (<sigh>), I can't just 'give it a try'. I've asked the tech department (even telling them what you told me) and received the same response -- XP Professional is the *only* version of XP that they will support.

GRRR.

For such a supposedly 'technologically advanced' institution, I'm not very impressed.

On the plus side, I *can* access webmail for the school without configuring my computer to their network. (As I thought should be the case -- even though they told me I couldn't. Seriously, they're on crack.) So the need to get XP Pro has become less urgent. I'll need it by the start of school, but it's no longer a 'drop everything' matter.

Thanks again for your help!

Bethy

I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it.