The way I see it is the computer still had a valid and legal Windows 98SE, regardless of what CD key I put in.
wow... you're still running windows 98SE?! ?!?!?
i got rid of that nonsense in 2003!
So did I, in 2002. I'm running Vista on my main gaming rig (E2140@3GHz, 2GB DDR2 CL5 @750, Radeon HD3850@770/<1998, Vista HP 64), XP on my internet rig (AMD K6-2 550MHz Chomper Ext, 256MB SDRAM, 3D Rage Pro 8MB), have another XP on the retired gaming (aka: watching paint dry) rig (Celeron 4 2GHz, 512MB DDR, FX5200), windows more errors on an old laptop (Celeron 500, 128MB SDRAM), and windows 98se on my nostalgia gaming rig (Pentium II 400, 64MB SDRAM, 3D Rage Pro 4MB).