Windows ME Problems

I had to reformat my harddrive as my computer totally crashed and I couldn't even get to the windows page to do anything. I tried repairing and doing an in-place upgrade with the XP cd, but each time it said it had errors copying certain files. So, now we're in process of reformatting...have to load ME first, then upgrade to XP. When we load ME, the windows screen looks like it's in safe mode, but it's not. I ran a scan with Norton Systemworks and it found about 11 errors and said there was a registry problem that needed to be corrected before any others, but couldn't correct it. I've reloaded ME several times, but it keeps coming up with the same problems. Microsoft said it could be due to a faulty cd-rom, but all other cd's work fine, and/or scratches on the ME or XP disk, but there are no scratches. Errors that pop up have to do with Kernell32, MSVCP60.dll, and symnti.dll. Any ideas or suggestions?