Thanks for the update. I got word that both IE8 and Chrome are crashing on the box I reinstalled XP on a few weeks back. Will tell them to bring it by and let me take a look. Virtual XP mode is working fine on my Windows 7 laptop.
I can't find the page again but I found a fix that made it update.
Make sure automatic updates is turned on, then go to the run box and bring up a command promt. Type wuauclt /detectnow, and wait about an hour. (I closed the command prompt and went to bed and left it sit.) The next morning, it had rebooted and I had about 140 updates.
If I get bored today, I'll toss another drive in and try this without installing IE8 just to see if it works that way.