Windows 98 is a big pain in the ***

Enough is enough. I had lots of trouble after installing the win98.The reason every one tells is that "dude you use the internet on 98 and that 's the reason.....".come on cut the crap.
Well every second month i am afraid that my windows would crash again.Recently my system crashed and I can explain you all that ive did and you cud just figure out how fragile the windows 98 is.Forunately i have dual boot and have not experienced a single crash in the winxp.(probably im not using that os as exensively as the 98).i just installed the BLC ( brian lara cricket - 05 - which was a demo version any way).and i chose not to restart the system and then as usual i uninstalled few other unwanted softwares from my p.c. after which my sister played some songs on the wmp.(windows media player).I turned off the monitor.I was browsing the digit mag and my sister who wntd to study turned off the wmp and shut down the system.Later that night i turned on my p.c. and boom !! the cursor was blinking for a little longer time than it used to load the windows.I smelled a big trouble right away and to my horror my imagination was slowly becoming a reality when i saw the message " Abort disk - Failed/retry" , when i tried to change the drive.Then it was buisness as usual changed the boot priority and then made the windows boot from the cd and ran the set up.But why the hell shud i deal with such a fragile os which tend to loose any one of the three files every 2 months like himem .sys ,config.sys and dgbat.sys. At the begining I used to get frightened as there was not even a clue whthr there was a harddisc crsh or the os crash.Now that , the crash is almost expeced every 2 months i do not bother abt it. Not only in this case , iam experiencing some strange situations with my win 98.The other day i tried to install this game called " the worms" ( or what ever hell does that mean .....).In order for me to run the game in my system my DirectX has to be upgraded.Well i saw that my system was using a Directx 8.1.So i thought i definetly need to have move on from that "stoneage software". First i installed directx 9( not sure whthr it is "b" or "c"). Then i installed the game and then restarted my system.Every thing was fine until the system again took a lot of time to start , i smelled disaster , i wasnt ready for that because i installed the win98 2 days prior to that and there is no way in hell that i am going to sit for another 45 min staring at the blue screen of death.I was very fortunate enough to see the message " WINDOWS IS UPDATING SOME FILES AND IT TAKES FEW SECONDS FOR COMPLETING THE UPDATION". I was very much releived to see that message and suddenly the windows opened without the starting music.Goodness gracious me , my wmp is not playing songs.this time the message was " No Audio Driver Detected". Believe me i was so frustrated that i wanted to remove win 98 from my system right away. i booted my system and loged on to winxp and tried formatting the "C - Drive" which was futile. I tried to calm myself down and again i tried to run the Dxdiag prog that checks for the Directx. To my disbelief DxDiag is not functioning."yes i have found the problem ", i said and then loged on to the web to look for a software which removes DirectX. Fortunately I found a German Software which does the job. I Downloaded that not before trying to load the DirectX8.1 and the Realtek Audio Diver. I busted the Direct X 9 out of my system and then reinstalled the audio driver and the Dx 8.1. and after that every thing seem to fall in the right place.Still I cannot open my Norton Antivirus 2003 which says " A DLL CALLED MSVCP.DLL IS MISSING " and i m not sure whthr my autoprotect is on as i m unable to access the NAV software. But the beauty here is NAV is installed in my win98.Similar is the case with the I.E. 6 which is installed in the sys but i cannot access it. I am really not at all sure what is happening with this win98 and it is similar to the situation " Where a Blind man is walking in the field which has lots of Land mines burried beneath" and can explode any time. I really doubt how Microsoft has become one of the leading Comp. in the world with such a crap which deserves a place in the dust bin for sure. I am eagerly waiting for a new os or an updated version of x.p.( Thinking now , why did i not bought a mac instead of P.C.!!!!!!!)