can I chime in and say I got ya beat?
Similar story of lore incoming...
So I build new PC and not having anything but my old Compaq quick restore disks to use from my old box I promptly start scouring for a warez copy of Windows XP. Being a dual proc rig I know I need to find XP Pro this will be a task for the ages. Well after a while I find the one online entity (whom we all know has every app OS etc sitting there on CD-R just to say he has it) well he sends me over an iso I burn to disk and get to installing, but on the old computer....WHAT??!!! Why the old box you ask, to be honest I have no freaking clue, if it did not work on the new system so what I wipe it and start new. Well you can probably imagine where I am going with this, the iso did not work about halfway through the install it canks out on me. Here I sit with an old Compaq which no longer has a bootable 98 on it, and a partial non booting XP on it as well. I trudge out to the local BB to see what is on shelves and am amazed still to this day. They use them little proprietary tags on things with the description etc well this one has an open box hand written price tag on it (but it is not open box still totally seled in the MS security packaging) I almost drop and immediately head up front to pay for my prize, same scenario as above the cashier shits all over herself the manager cleans it up and promptly drops his own load next to her and I walk out the door with my BRAND NEW RETAIL FULL INSTALL (not an upgrade) copy of Windows XP Pro for $29.99....
Talk about missing the decimal, shoulda been $299.99
gotta love human error