Sharing and permissions and group policies are pretty similar in Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro. I use XP at the house now out of convenience (I'd have to go find my 2000 pro cd) rather than any real need. I do like cleartype fonts but that's hardly an issue on a fileserver. On the minus, XP Pro is quite a bit more bloated by default than is 2k. On the plus side, XP Pro includes the remote desktop app so you can log onto the server from your other boxes to configure it.
I would guess that XP would require a bit more tweaking and trimming of software to get to run well on your system. Whatever you do, avoid XP Home as it is missing a lot of networking features that you may want to use.
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