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I'm intrigued to see if / how the Amazon checkout process enforces this. Why do you suggest XP Pro rather than XP Home? Cheers, Andrew.

Seriously? A product "Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk" (so, not from Amazon Marketplace) is likely to be counterfeit? They've got pages and pages of this stuff. Cheers, Andrew.

Thanks, PeDaSp. I'm pretty sure the OEM edition sold by Amazon is extremely unlikely to be counterfeit. Your experience of having two separate installations is reassuring! Cheers, Andrew.

Many thanks for the advice, chartb -- it's exactly what I was looking for. Although my broadband connection goes through an ethernet router, each machine is simply assigned a 10.0.0.x IP, so I don't think I need the capability to join a domain. One last question: the OEM versions of XP...

I'm on the very brink of buying a Mac Pro to replace both my Powerbook and an ageing, neglected Windows 2000 PC. As a web developer, the idea is to have Win2K running IE6 in one Parallels window on the Mac Pro, and to have XP running IE7 in another Parallels window, while doing the coding in...