jump to Windows2000 from XP

[ultra]

Hi
I read a lot about hating XP .. i Heard things like .. it is unstable and can not support drivers properly.. and a lot like these from my friends over an year or so. I think Xp got improved a lot in this one year by its Dynamic Upgrading Capacity.
Until yesterday i never used to beleive my friends openions..
I had some problem with Internet explorer and Windows explorer, so i reinstalled my windows XP(upgrade option) as i tried many services packages from Microsoft. Now I am unable to logon to internet using AOL. AOL people say that this is because of missing DUN (dail up network) files. the error message i am getting here is "windows networking is not properly installed".
and i was told by AOL people that they dont have any idea how to get these files for XP( i think they have some answers for the same problem on other OS).
So now i am thinking of jumping to Windows 2000. I just need some suggestion from u.. how i can jump to 2000 with out loosing the 12G of data I have.
Ultra

[raftero]

i have had no problems with xp,upgraded from w2k,i have no experience with aol but probably if you had used systems restore prior to the reinstall it might have fixed it.maybe someone else can help.

[NationalServer]

I went to W2Kpro from XPpro...did not care for it waaaaaay tooo many security patches come out and it has not been on market so long...tsk..tsk...sometimes wonder if it is another type of spyware..always updating....by the way...had someone sit next to me on auto update for XP and .net stuff got in along with SQL stuff and dat big fat worm jumped in too.....lost OS but saved data and had to recover....it would not restore...to user friendly for me