Trying again to deal with XPe only lead to more frustrations today.  I managed to get the virtual disk marked as bootable, and the virtual machine did start up, but then I was faced with another problem.  As is, the image would complain that it couldn’t find System32driverspci.sys, so, I rebuilt the image and included the PCI subsystem that contained the needed file.  After rebuilding the image and again booting to it, the image bluescreened as soon as it started loading.  Removing pci.sys fixed the bluescreen, but reverted to the other problem.  I still have some tinkering to do, but I don’t know how successful it will be.

During some of my sporadic downtime when Windows was crashed, loading, or rebooting, I took a look at the iPhone SDK and emulator.  Some of the webapps for the iPhone are really impressive, notably Facebook and Meebo.  I even found a plugin/theme for Wordpress to make a site more iPhone friendly and set it up for Collegegeek.org.  I haven’t started coding anything yet, but the first step will be to start learning some Objective C.