Windows Media Player

I'm running Win 98SE, I know its an obsolete OS but it came with the PC. I installed Windows Media Player - or so I thought - and everything seemed fine - not that I tested it. But the installation seemed fine, version 9 I think it was. However, I wanted to watch a streamed video from Gamespot earlier today and it wouldn't let me. It took several attempts to get a version of Media Player installed and working. At one point I uninstalled the version of WMP that I had installed to try a re-install. Basically, you need version 7.1 if you're running Win98SE but you need a version of Windows Media Player installed to find that out - I had to roll back to the version of WMP installed by default with the OS.