The problem was that I had to upgrade the BIOS drivers for my HP Pavilion. I had edited BOOT.INI and specified the location for bootsect.f32, but to no avail. I got the info on Microsoft's site that Dual-booting with the older drivers caused your PC to hang. Had to play around a little bit to get my NIC installed, but as you said Dave, its well worth the effort. Managed to get the other PC which has 98 installed, to talk to the PDC as well.
Life is Good.
Thanks once again, I really appreciate it.