Don't know a lot about Vista: I went from XP to Win7. Couldn't you just use something like Mozilla Thunderbird as the mail program?
XP will install from a USB if u can copy it over: I have had to do that a few times.
I also put a copy of the OS install disk in a folder on the hard drive so that any changes to windows that needs the disk can be done quicker from the HDD and once it has learned that the OS install disc is on the HDD it doesn't ask for the CD next time u make a change.
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