the jaggies are because of my ram 256.
I hardly post in freeware anymore but when I read this I just needed to ask "Who told you that?" Jaggies are not caused by a lack of RAM.
And if you have a 256 VGA card then there's something not quite right with your settings ...
But i've got $115 dollars for my b-day so i'll get i one gig ram
If you must spend any money on RAM on that machine, I would look at getting a pair of matched 512 MB sticks and don't use the 'old' sticks anymore in that machine. I'll try to explain as simple as possible: Old RAM will 'run' slower than any new RAM you can get nowadays (same as with CPU's basically). If you use a combination of old and new RAM you will risk the chance of running the newer RAM at the speed of the slower RAM. Newer RAM will adjust itself to run at the slower speed of the older RAM, but not the other way around. If you do it that way it is pointless to buy the extra RAM ...