OK folks....due to a work injury and the resulting fixed income I have been unable to upgrade to USB gear. After considerable research I discovered some people were building dual boot systems and flyinh on 9x.
I decided to try it, (nothin to lose).
I built a 10 gig partion on my HD and put 98SE on it. Then installed XP on the remaining 30 gigs. (I don't want to go into too much detail about dual boot systems as probably alot of you already know about it and that info is readily available by searching here or at the CH Hangar. Will be happy to share what I've learned on the subject if anyone is interested though). The KEY thing here is XP, with the NTFS file system can read the Fat32 file system of 98 but not vice versa.
Anyway...this went slicker than Owl poop, but 98 would not recognize the existence of a stick no matter what I tried. Well I frustratedly decided to try once again to fly AH using XP and just my stick and keyboard, (which sucks). When I went offline and tried to fly all the sudden my XP keymap was acting strange....reason was, even though I was in XP, without Speedkeys even installed on XP, it was reading my Speedkeys files from Win98. Yeefarkinghaaaa!
So all ya gotta do is build a dual boot system, can use a seperate HD if you want or can partition. Install 98, or ME First!!!, then XP. Install Speedkeys on 98. The only time you have to boot to 98 is to edit Speedkeys.
This was a cosmic accident but it works.
One thing I'd do different, (and will at some point)....you certainly don't need a 10 gig partition to install a bare bones Win98 but I had to planned to play AH on it as well. All you need on the 98 side is Speedkeys.
Sure hope this helps, GL! and
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PS Hiya Edbert and Westy!! Long time no see old friends. Good to see some old farts still around. 
BTW Westy, the XP boot disk would not work for me either....as I have said I went without my AH fix for a year because I just could not get comfortable using just my stick and keyboard.
