This will provide a much faster and favorable experience VS RDC over network (or worse, the internet). It also gives you free reign to do whatever else you might want to do on windows (which for me isn't much, but a nice-to-have none-the-less).
The following list of commands will get you a free (microsoft sponsored) Windows XP VM environment with IE6 installed. The password is "Password1". When you first login, you will be asked to activate the OS. Do this immediately over the internet. You will get 90 days of activation. Once this runs out, activate the snapshot called "The initial VM state" to go back in time.
% mkdir -p ~/.vm/hdds/windows/winxp-ie6/
% cd !$
% wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/2/B72085AE-0F04-4C6F-9182-BF1EE90F5273/Windows_XP_IE6.exe
% unrar e Windows_XP_IE6.exe