Don't worry Les. MS will always love you and keep upgrading on you. No end in sight. Hope to see you go back and upgrade all your sites to Longhorn.

I'm not advocating a NEW install of NT4 I'm simply asking why a company so small is wanting or willing to spend such money in the first place.

If there is not a significant ROI or other reason to spend the money then I don't see why there doing it. Not every small Mom & Pop shop out there has or wants to spend the money trying to keep up with MS releases when using computers is a minor part of their business.

I'm also not one to be so afraid of "hackers". There is much more hype then fact on that subject. There are also many small shops out there that have no outside connectivity so remote hacking is impossible anyways.

Jens,
I vote for clean install. Just discuss pros / cons with the client and let them participate in the decision after you supply them with the information.