Kari,
As usual, you're right. Jordan needs a working computer and the XP
Acrois image could be hardware dependent...
By the way: my first XP virtual machine was a VirtualBox one.
Afterwards, I imported that virtual machine from Parallels and, later,
the Parallels virtual machine was copied to another computer and
accepted by a differente (older) version of Parallels.
Best wishes,
Manuel