Photoshop is very expensive for a lot of features that I never use. I like Microsoft photo editor myself and that comes with windows .

However I do think that the new XP's are great. I have XP Home and my boyfriend has XP professional and we both really like it. ever since I had it installed, which was almost a year ago, I think I've had my computer crash once. If you used Window's 98, XP will be a pretty easy switch because it looks pretty much the same.

Anyway, good luck with all that. I hope it all goes well for you!