Ok, I got it now.. suninfirelook- he
I have a non-chinese version of windows XP installed and only need chinese
for websearches and writing in Word. So the following works at least for
people in my situation.
Bob Buckland got me on the right track -thanks- nevermind office, it's all
about having WINDOWS know you want to write in chinese.
What you need to do is to make sure you've installed support for chinese
from your XP cd. Then go to international language preferences. Click
languages, details, add, and choose traditional (simplified, whatever you
need) chinese.
At the bottom right corner of your screen you should now have a language
tap, that changes the language you're inputting by clicking on it 8)