I probably will order a new Dell tower tomorrow, with extra memory, dual drives and Windows XP professional.

Office Small Business is offered for $330. Also available is Office Home and Student for $179- it has what I need- but will it work with the XP set-up? Very ignorant on these things. Dell seems to offer the cheaper package only with home and office packages, not the Small business packages.

I have lost (stolen by a service man?) my Office 2000 discs (I had put on the upgrades that came up). Guess I have to start over with new program.