My mom was given an old IBM laptop that has Win98 (not SE) installed on it.
I wanted to upgrade it to "SE", and since I had moved on to XP I tried to
"install" my own copy of SE over the top of hers. After spending 15 minutes
checking out her system the install aborted and gave the message that it
needed an "upgrade to SE" rather than an original SE.

So I asked around for someone that might want to sell me an upgrade copy,
found one and bought it. When I tried to install it this time it gave the
error message that it needed an upgrade from Win98 to Win98SE. A closer
examination of what I had purchased showed that it was an upgrade to Win98SE
"from" Windows 3.1, or Windows 95.

Is there some work around that I can use to either install my original SE,
or the SE Upgrade that I purchased.

Ted Smith