Update on upgrade
I think I changed my mind on the case to buy. The Antec Aria. It costs twice as much - but looks a lot nicer, has a 300W power supply, a big 120mm fan on the back, a built-in 8-in-1 card reader, and two blue LEDs :) Plus it’s more square, and just looks nicer in general.
I also now have 768 MB of PC2100 DDR RAM in xenon. When I upgrade, I’m going to have to buy more anyway, to support the higher bus speed (800 MHz). It won’t cost very much to get a gig of PC3200 DDR400, maybe $200 or so. So that’s what I’ll probably do as well.
I may have to put off buying the hard drive for now, depending on how much money I have saved at the time. I would like to have some to spend on family for Christmas again this year. More so than last year. Like my first year of working at Wal-Mart :)