Okay, this appears to be my day for asking stupid questions -- thanks in advance for putting up with me.

From what I gather from my googling the t5720 is capable of booting an OS from USB. It also appears to be capable of support other USB appliances, e.g. external hard drives. Is there any reason why I can't setup a thumb drive to boot full XP and store apps on an external USB drive? I read an article about someone who did something similar with a Linux distro, though he installed it to the internal flashdrive by booting from a USB CD-ROM drive. Am I missing something?

Again, I have a feeling this is a stupid question, but I had to ask.