Silver?

On xbox live what is the silver online thing mean? I've heard that you can play games with people online but I've also heard that you can't, which is it? Also, can you renew an original xbox with a gold card from gamestop? I have an account with a 2 month trial and the trial ended yesterday but I can still play, and I heard that they'll kill your account if you do that, I didn't use a credit card with any money, I used an empty pre paid card... XD But it renewed it anyway, but they'll find out once it denies it.

You have all the features of Gold EXCEPT you can't play online

So you just can't play against people in stuff like deathmatch? Any idea on the gold card working on the original?

Nope. You won't be able to play anyone. At all. Ever.

And it should. Just transfer your account to your Xbox 360 and then enter the code; everything should work out