locales and multi-language setup

[James Kramer]

Greetings on this overcast day.

My wife if visiting her parents in Latvia.  She will take a notebook
to give to them so that they can communicate with us and watch our
home DVDs.  I purchased a Lenovo T61 in great shape from ebay.  It has
windows XP on it and a few good extras so I would like to keep it for
the good hires graphics and DVD playability. I need to configure it
for Latvian as cheap as possible (i.e. $0).  My plan is to use Google
to the fullest extent possible.  For Windows XP, I installed a Latvian
version of Firefox and set the home page to Google.lv/ig to get them
into the Google mode (I will create an account).   I also installed a
Latvian version of Wubi  just for snob appeal.  My wife has friends in
Riga that are computer savvy but we hate to impose.

I would appreciate any suggestions that you have on how to make this
system work.  It looks great to me, but my parents-in-law are not
computer savvy and neither is my wife who is going alone to Riga to
give them the machine.

Thanks for the help.

Jay