[joel96]

I could not find an entry for "PACKAGE_VERSION" under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VIA Technologies, Inc." All that was under that entry was "Chipset information Setup Program," With an empty entry marked 1.00.000 under it. I read through the articles provided in the links, but since data corruption is not present in the system, and since it has VIA AC'97 Audio as its audio chip, I will leave it unaltered.
I downloaded the 4.56 driverset and ran it from the desktop. After restarting, a new entry was present under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VIA Technologies, Inc" called Via4in1Driver, with strings related to the driverset. Since installing the driverset is more for any potential additional bugs at this point than for any practical application, I plugged in a USB 2.0 storage device, since I don't know if this particular drive might work at USB 1.1 speeds. A windows message briefly appeared reading that drivers were being installed for the device, but it did not appear in My Computer.
I downloaded usbf108.exe from Part I of the general version of the Crash Test article. I opened the file before I realized that it contained several files mentioned in this thread (probably overwriting some of the superceding files, but since USB 2.0 functionality is impossible, and since the drives likely do not work without USB 2.0 support, it should not cause any noticible differences). I restarted and checked My Computer, but the drive was not listed. I think the system is now as optimized as it can get without changing the hardware. It is is likely better to stay with the newer Intel-based USB 2.0-supporting Windows ME system I have, since the only advantage the older VIA system has is a larger case with a more user-friendly case-interior design.

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

SP 3.18 now give users a fully updated USB 1.x + USB 2.0 stack.

HIDCLASS.SYS 4.90.0.3000
HIDPARSE.SYS 5.1.2600.5512
HIDUSB.SYS 5.1.2600.5512
HIDVKD.SYS 4.90.0.3000
OPENHCI.SYS 5.0.2195.6940
UHCD.SYS 5.0.2195.6882
USBAUTH.SYS 4.90.3000.0
USBD.SYS 5.0.2195.7008
USBCCGP.SYS 5.1.2600.5585
USBDSC1.SYS 4.10.0.1998
USBDSC2.VXD 4.0.0.950
USBEHCI.SYS 5.0.2195.6882
USBHUB.SYS 5.0.2195.7006
USBHUB20.SYS 5.0.2195.6891
USBMPHLP.PDR 4.90.3000.0
USBNTMAP.SYS 4.90.0.3000
USBPORT.SYS 5.0.2195.6941
USBSER.SYS 5.1.2600.5512
USBSTOR.SYS 5.0.2195.6773
USBU2A.SYS 1.4.2.0
USBVIEW.EXE 5.1.2600.2180
WDMSTUB.SYS 5.0.0.6
X360C.SYS 5.2.3790.1830
X360CCP.DLL 5.2.3790.1830
X360CFF.DLL 5.2.3790.1830
X360CSA.EXE 5.2.3790.1830