Right then, just formatted my pc and ditched my bent copy of XP Pro, had a retail copy of xp64 pro lying around and since discovering some raid drivers that actually worked ive stuck it on.
I have updated to IE7 as I like to keep my stuff up to date, but I'll still be needing a standalone version of IE6.
I see "tredsoft" (makers of IE7 standalone) have a "multipleIE" thing, and there are also other version of IE6 for standalone on another website. Which one should I go for, the comments on tredsoft seems to indicate their versions are really buggy.