That's not sound advice. ME will network just fine. And when it is configured properly it is superior to XP in some ways.
I've networked ME with every other MS OS and find that XP is the hairy beeyatch when it comes to manipulating it.
Ever try to get rid of a trojan from XP? The NTFS partition won't allow access to the disk without Windows running. That can cause a lot of headaches.
Turn off "system recovery" (something you need to do anytime you are removing a trojan or virus) and then bring the system up in safe mode.
Mark
Anyone who has used ME for very long will agree that it is the worst O/S ever released from Microsoft, except perhaps DOS 4.0. Windows 98SE works better than ME. I didn't say that it wouldn't network. It networks fine...It's just crap.