Office XP. and I think I've solved the problem, but going to stay away from office for a while.

Apparently I left a defrag running, but cancelled it halfway through. This isn't healthy or so the 100% processor usage spikes (2 sec) would indicate. I also found a temporary solution in doing several full scandisks (Scandisk (98se) pwns chkdsk(XP) ;p) and deleting a lot of stuff (still want a new HDD though, but not allowed to buy one). So I'll redo the defragmentation, but for now the system works okay.

And reasons for not using XP:
- Uses more memory on a few of the useless things.
- Didn't layer program installs (IE both systems having the same programs folder to save space)
- Horrible recovery rate after a system failure.
- Horrible Suicidal rate causing system failures.
- It doesn't run Safedisc protected games (IE morrowind) >\.

Weee, fix0red!