Thank you Patrick for your clear directions! Once I got the system booted, enough to access files, I followed them exactly with great success.
For those of you having trouble figuring out how to boot to the command prompt, consider what I did to get the job done.
Because the file system is NTFS, I was not able to boot using a Win98 floppy disk. What I did instead was take the main hard drive and change it to a "slave" drive. I then installed a new "master" drive and proceeded to install Windows XP Home Edition on the new drive.
Next, I booted off of the new drive and found that I was able to access all of the files on the original hard drive. After that I followed Patrick's instructions, except I had to change the drive letter to a 'd' where ever he mentioned 'c'.
The very last thing I had to do was to take the two drives out, return the original hard drive to its normal state, boot the computer and all was well.
Thanks again!
Bill