I thought the Numlock was set to whatever was active when the login screen comes up. Could be wrong tho.
Doesn't Microsoft have the phrase "windows aint done til lotus/netscape..... wont run"?
I don't know what could be freaking it out. I use Opera and can open huge numbers of windows without much happening. Occationally it does bomb but I can continue where I left off when I restart it.
I think there may be a way to get Amipro to work by making a PIF for it. I don't know how to make the PIF in w2k but that would be my guess. have a pif launch it into 16 bit world.