Puzzledperson... thanks again. The good Lord works in mysterious ways... especially on Easter. I decided to reinstall Win98se, and when I did it reconfigured boot.ini to select Win98. And here is what it did:
[Boot Loader]
timeout=30
Default=C:
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
C:\="Microsoft Windows 98"
The reason I was so upset with the auto default, is because my wife uses the system and I will be out of town and asking her to wait for the screen and do this and that would not be appealing to her. So, all I have to do now is change the timeout to 1 second and she will be in fat city.
Thank you for the help.
sincerely,
John Underwood