After all that, I just want to play Diablo 2 now. The next Diablo is coming out in little over a month, and I would like to revisit D2 at least one more time. Diablo 3 is going to be full price (around $60) for probably the next year or two, so there's nothing to be gained from waiting, and with Blizzard or Valve games its almost guaranteed to be great.
Going through the archive, it looks my last installs of D2 were in late 2000 and late 2001. I must have been really into this game, because I bought an extra copy of the original and expansion just so I could have a whole bunch of mules to carry stuff. I wonder if that stuff would even carry forward now, so many patches later. I think I'll just start from scratch.