well, thanks to krakken, i did reformat
in fact, i called my sister up and she came over. i am now on my windows 98, and it's a dream. simply. you have no idea just how nice it is to go from being on windows 95, then windows 98, then BACK to 95, and finally back to 98 again. 98 is so convenient, so nice, so...so beautiful
everything is running smoothly too, i just hope my mom doesn't corrupt it all again with her constant installing of useless junk.