Huh? He's running win98. There is no 'root' account on windows.
Why does Kaazaa need root anyway?????
Theres no such thing as an administator account on windows 98?

Kazza would need to be run as root or admin, because if you don't all of your downloads will fail. Atleast this has been my experience with kazaa. I was just giving him an example of what i do, i have a limited account, and when i run a program i always right click "run as" to avoid viruses/trojans. If you run kazza on a root/admin account, whenever you recieve a virus it is immediately able to execute itself because it has all of the appropriate permissions. If your on a limited account running kazza as root, the viruses/trojans will not be able to distribute their payload. That is unless you download an executable and then run it as root without having scanned it with an antivirus.