used the pe2usb program to format the data stick, that worked well, then I used both of the USB_Mutliboot_10, and usb_prep8 programs (at separate times), and the usb_multiboot_10 gets me the farthest in the install (makes it all the way to "Setup is starting windows 2000" and the activity quits there...I left it for 30 minutes, and no good...tried FAT32 and NTFS, both with the same results.