The laptop has now arrived, and after some tomfoolery I have it all happily Win2K-running. Happy except for one lone USB controller lurking in the "Other Devices" bit of the hardware list instead of having a driver, despite three USB controllers and three USB hubs being listed properly.
"Tomfoolery?" I imagine you didn't ask, and I also imagine you are now batting in vain at your screen screaming "no, no, don't explain the tomfoolery, it'll be boring", but I'm going to explain it anyway. And it would have been only about half as long without all this explanation, so now see what your imaginary screaming has wrought.
I couldn't get the wireless network to work. It seemed the sort of thing that would happen if the card was failing to transmit, which is a common fault in newly-delivered wireless cards. I changed OS twice in my endeavors. Then I remembered that the wireless access point was configured, by me, to not communicate with any cards other than the three we previously had. Tsk.
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