Jack Martinelli wrote:
http://winnoel.users.btopenworld.com/reinME.htm

Read these instructions carefully, as many times as necessary, to properly
reinstall WinME "in place".
Additional explanatory details are in several places recently in the WinME
ng's in posts by Noel Paton and Mike Malby.
You must uninstall IE6 and disable WMP9, if installed currently.

do you have a Celeron processor?