LOL don't you just love Win98
At the time I much prefered ME to 98 because it was faster booting, marginly more reliable, decent USB support and so on.
I quite like using 98SE becuase I have a legal disc/booklet thing with key and on a 600Mhz Celeron PC what could be better for basic file sharing? The performance is good, it has AVG free on it, I could mess around with ZoneAlarm 3.1 if I wanted and any [Windows 95 or better] PC on the network can access it no probs.
The one thing I miss on Win9x is the network activity icons for LAN connections like you have in 2K/XP/Vista*
*The Vista network activity icon is a sick joke and doesn't at all reflect network activity unlike its predecessors. It just blinks back and forth resembling nothing meaningful. Vista even prompts you to identify networks with a name in the same way a firewall application might do. In the pursuit of dumbed-down easy-to-useness, it was a complete pain to get going on the network.