Office 2000 on Win XP Pro SP2 Laptop

[Alan C. Brown]

I have a new laptop running on Win XP Pro SP2 (fully updated with cricitical
updates).

I would like to install Office 2000 Professional, and update it with Office
2000 SR-1a and SP3.

Laptop is partioned into 4 partitions (C, D, E &F), with the D: partition
intended for Applications (i.e non-OS software)

Questions :

1. Are there any compatibility issues between Office 2000 Pro (including
SR-1a & SP3) and the fully updated Win XP Pro SP2 ?

2.Would installation of Office 2000 adversely change any files critical for
the normal functioning of Win XP Pro SP2 ?

3. Are there any reasons why I should not install Office 2000 on the D:
partition instead of the C: partition ?

Advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Alan C. Brown