For the sake of others in the same position I found that I needed an xp install disk that had already got SP2 on it. A regular XP install disk just doesn't work.
I ended up learing about a procedure called "slipstreaming",...
After a month of wasting time with vista, today I tried to install XP professional but with little success.
I formatted the partiition that had Vista, as NTFS, through the XP setup and the setup appeared to run normally but after a...