Options for Using Commercial Web-Site that "Requires" IE6

Mac Fans,

I'm a MacBigot from way back - got off the bandwagon in 1994 with the
PowerPC and the native/non-native mode swapping that turned using a
Mac into russian roulette . . . I've been a BSD and Linux person
since, but I've watched The Resurrection with pleasure.

At any rate, my friend, a delightful and attractive woman, bought a
spiffy new Intel-based iMac a few months back, and now she'd like to
use it to access a web-based business application that is telling her
she can't run it because Safari is Mozilla 5 and the site requires
Internet Explorer 6 or later.

The guy at the Mac Store told her to buy a copy of XP Home and use
Bootcamp. I find this distasteful - putting $100 in to Micro$oft's
pockets for a CD and cardboard box goes against the grain of my
thinking.

What other options are there? I assume that the Mac community has
done something with WINE or some other emulation option . . . VMware
server and I can finesse her a WinBlows license . . .

Or are there ways to foof the Browser Version that Safari reports?
Unless the site is doing some really shitty .NET crap, having Safari
current with the latest JRE installed should suffice, nyet?

Please save me from having to install WinBlows on a perfectly good
Linux . . . er I mean Macintosh . . .

Thanks in Advance,

Doug
madmac63@xxxxxxxxx
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