Thanks for the feedback, folks. Sounds like there's no free lunch in this case. By the way, Peetster, you can dual boot into WinXP and Linux without using the floppy every time, even though Linux cannot write LILO to the MBR on a NTFS disk. Many sites on how to do this, but this one has worked for me:
http://classes.csumb.edu/CST/CST434-.../DualBoot.html