> The end result was I purchased my mother VMWare Fusion 3, a copy of Windows XP, and ended up having to tutor her on the usage of a virtual machine, the mechanics between how to seamlessly work with the two operating systems, etc. I still get daily tech support calls that eat up a lot of my personal time, now not only for the MacBook, but for VMWare Fusion, Windows XP and IE/Safari usage.

Just enabling Unity for MSIE doesn't work well enough?