Here you'll find  screenshots of my XP installation in VMware on Mandriva 2007.0

Usefull links:

http://www.mandriva.com/ 

http://www.vmware.com/

http://dcgrendel.thewaffleiron.net/vmbuilder/ 

http://www.google.com/

*** the "theme" I have used in XP is here: http://www.crystalxp.net/

Good luck!