Installing Windows on my MacBook

I am working towards ridding my house of pc's, just as I have rid my house of Charter cable. Unfortunately I still have 2 things that require me to have a pc.
1) Quicken Home and Business, the software I use to do my invoicing and manage my business accounts, is only available on Windows.
2) Remote connections to work.

So, how do I get around this predicament? My first try is to install Parallels for Mac. It's virtual O/S software that has been getting some good buzz.

Parallels has a 15 day free trial so I downloaded it yesterday to try out. Install was quite easy BUT the install of Windows XP was not. My first several attempts always hung at about 37 minutes remaining while installing devices. Kept restarting it but nothing.

Finally I started looking at which devices it was trying to set up. It was trying to do 2 devices that didn't exist; a floppy drive and a parallel port. I disabled those and also turned off my Airport card (wifi). This time it blew through all that but stopped on saving settings with about 9 minutes remaining. I started to wonder if it needed a network connection for that or something so I turned the Airport card back on and restarted it and bingo, it went right through the install and started Windows in a window on my desktop.

This will allow me to do all my windows stuff on my Mac. Say goodnight PC. "Goodnight PC"

Here's a screen shot.