Replacing Front forks, left different from right?

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Hi everybody,

need to replace the front forks, as at least one of them is bent.

I might get each one of them from different sellers.

Question: is the right hand fork the same as the left hand one, i.e. are they interchangeable?

Also are the non ajustable forks from 98-99 different in layout from the 00-03 ones?

Thanks