Bad news I'm afraid
I gotta sleep soon, but to the best of my knowledge, the only oddities I know of is this (obviously) is not being ran from a virtual machine, I installed all the updates from the 2007 98se autopatcher (I couldn't get access to the newer 2008 autopatch for 98se, I'll try again soon if it means anything), the hard drive is big, KernelEX is not installed, and I'm using an XP era video card. Sorry, I'm not as experienced with this stuff as you guys are, I hope I'm being some kind of help with this information. If you need me to find anything else to help, just ask.