What. A. Load. Of. Bat. Droppings!

I got hold of Windows Server 2003 (no, I didn't buy it, because I wasn't sure that was what I wanted for my server, and didn't want to waste money on it) deleted one of the harddrives from my RAID, and installed it on that. First it seemed to go fine. Windows was installed, I managed to find out how to enable remote desktop access and how to share folders. Being windows, there were naturally a load of security patches and the like, and windows popped up to ask me if I wanted to install the lot. "Why, naturally my dear James" I thought, and proceeded with the download and the install. After the traditional reboot, it went wrong. I booted almost into the graphic shell, but then crashed and rebooted!? I tried a few different things, but ended up reinstalling the whole thing, thinking I might have done something wrong e.g. installing iTunes. Having finally gotten through the second install, having updated and patched, I crossed all that could be crossed, and commenced the obligatory reboot. Lo and behold! The blo*** "#%"#&¤"§!§ crashed again!! and it keeps crashing the same place over and over again! The only thing that frigthens me a bit is; I wasn't really that suprised. I didn't think "Oh my god, I must have messed something up pretty bad", because I knew that I didn't do anything except follow the directions of the mothership. When I get the time, I'll try and install a regular XP on it...if that fails I'm not sure what I'll do. Perhaps use Linux with VMWare on top. I think it was Linus Torvalds who once said: "It's not that I think Microsoft is the root of all evil, they just make crappy software" :)