MSDE Internal Error 2737

The only google hit on Internal Error 2737 was a message archived here with no solution posted. I found that updating IE to 6.0 SP1 solved the Internal Error 2737, although I'm still not quite getting MSDE 2000 to run under Windows 98 First Edition. The Installer now installs without error, but the server manager doesn't turn the little SQL Server system tray icon green, the server doesn't seem to start up.Any information from error logs/event viewer for this behaviour.