Ivan, I don't know how far your energies and resources extend, but have you
looked at:
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html
This is the so-called 'Unofficial Win 98 Serice Pack' and my superficial
impression of it is that it provides a combination of MS update links as
well as upgrades of various dlls from ME. You would need access to an ME
installation disk, of course, but, alternatively, if you could find someone
in the ng that has installed the USP, they could tell you if the behaviour
is altered. It provides other amenities, such as support for flash or thumb
drives, etc..
There is a link to a forum which has posts from users, if that's any
help.

Joe
"Ivan Bútora" <xxx@xxx.xxx> wrote in message
news:uw$k$TKEGHA.3004@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> --- In news:%23aB3NLKEGHA.1120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl, Mike M typed:
>
> > Win Me - out of the box - v5.81.4134.100, 581,632 bytes dated 8 June
2000
> > (RTM date for Win Me).
> > Win Me with IE6 SP1 and fully patched - v5.81.4916.400, 548,624 bytes
> > dated 29 Aug 2002 (RTM date for IE6 SP1).
>
> OK, it seems we have the same comctl32.dll from IE6 SP1. Could you point
me to
> some other files which affect the behavior of the Open/Save As dialog
boxes?
>
> It is also known that the ones in Win ME resemble the ones in Windows 2000
> visually. My guess also is that Windows 2000 does not have the folder
shorcut
> issue either. Do you know which are all the files that are involved?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ivan
>
>