If I could ask for one feature in Windows 9x...

[A Black Falcon]

I have over 5,000 songs on my playlist. It's not that hard at all to remember what songs you have. That aside, I generally start at the top of my playlist and slowly work my way through all the songs over the course of a few months or so. And if I want a certain song or set of songs, I just scroll through the list until I find them, instead of having to dig through a mountain of folders.

I'd say that the opposite way is the easier one... :) (that is not one giant list, but a simple folder tree)

This RARELY, if at all, happens with Windows XP.

It happened in 95 and 98 too, if perhaps not quite as often as it does in Me...

I prefer using the windows explorer launch icon because it automatically opens all the panes I want for file management.

Oh, you mean the thing with the sidebar and stuff? I just use the default My Computer look (which you also get from entering it via IE), not the explorer with the sidebar...