[Christ]

You'd be better off saving weight by cutting large sections of body panels out and replacing them with fiberglass sheets... and really, you're still no better off than when you started.

I might suggest Windows 2000 Pro if you can't run XP reliably. Of course, there are also the various Linux distros, most of which seem to run themselves lately... no user interface required, other than learning that C:/ isn't a drive, it's an image of your computer's expression while running Windows software. Linux looks more like =)