Thanks, Dean, that did the trick and the rest was smooth sailing. Windows XP is now up and running on my MacBook Pro using VirtualBox.
Bob
On 28-Jun-10, at 8:24 PM, Dean Danis wrote:
<x-tad-bigger> Virtualbox needs to have focus to accept the F8 key. Click on the Windows XP window to give it focus and then press the fn + f8 keys.</x-tad-bigger>