Installing VMWare Fusion

Installing VMWare Fusion, I only ran into minor problems, see below:

1. First I installed VMWare Fusion 1.1 from disc I have without problems.
   
   
2. When I started it up, it prompted me to download an upgrade to 1.1.1, which I did and also installed without problem.
   
   
3. Fusion automatically detected my Boot Camp partition, which I double-clicked on and XP started.
   
   
4. I logged into XP and was immediately prompted for activation (within 3 days) of my Windows XP license, since the computer hardware had changed considerably. I had already been warned about that in the Fusion documentation, though.
   
   
5. In the end I was unable to reactivate, and ended up having to call Microsofts support number. The automated activation procedure failed, and I was redirected to manual support. After about 10 minutes of waiting, my call was answered, and I thoroughly described my situation and that I also probably would need to reactivate again, when my new machine is delivered in a couple of weeks. It didn't really seem like the guy cared, so he just set me up with a number that was read automatically as I wrote it in the reactivation dialog window. Phew, back on track.
   
   
6. According to the Boot Camp setup support document, I should already have been prompted for installing drivers by the "Add new hardware wizard" at an earlier stage, but that didn't happen until now (or actually, it might have happened again anyway, since some of the drivers were from the VMWare disc.
   
   
7. I installed the drivers. First time around I clicked on the wrong version of the VMWare SVGA II driver (I clicked the 64-bit version, since I have a 64-bit processor, but should have clicked the 32-bit version, since that's the version of XP I'm running), but that failed gracefully, and after a restart I was prompted again, then correcting my mistake.
   
   
8. After testing stuff a little bit, the fullscreen mode, etc, I installed VMWare Tools, to be able to run the super-cool Unity mode.

Installed VMWare tools, and voilà - dual boot setup completed.
So far, so good. Now I just need to find a smart way to use Outlook as seldom as possible (I think I will have too use it to accept meeting invitations, etc.) and Mac Mail as much as possible. One third alternative would be to setup Thunderbird, since it can be run on both platforms. Best would be to handle mail filtering on the server, if possible. Don't think .Mac can handle that, though.