You may find some help for Win98 updates at the Windows98 Downloads page. It directs you back to the Windows updates page, which you indicated hasn't worked for you; but there may be some help at this one. There were a couple of "fixes," like the "Year 2000 patch" that were - if memory serves me - required before you could use the regular windows update for Win98.

I believe there was a link at the Win98 downloads page where you can at least get an updated IE, which may be part of what you're missing to get into the main place. You may need at least IE5 to get in at the regular update page, and the default version for Win98 was 3.0 or 4.5 as I recall, depending on whether you had the SE version of Win98.

Some others may not have noticed that there is now a "Microsoft Updates" seup that will give you all Microsoft critical updates - OS, IE, and Office programs, etc., all in one place; but it's only available for WinXP SP-1 or better, and possibly for Win2K (?). Look on the Windows update page you've been using...

John