I can confirm, as a M&M fan that the ONLY way to run editions 6 to 8 is with Windows98. I know how you all feel. What i have done is partition my hard drive and loaded Win98 on the first partition and WinXP on the second. If you load your games (or any that require Win98) on the Win 98 partition you can then run them through WinXP. Hope this helps.
mrbeetee