Internet Explorer Required?

My son has a new macbook and is in his freshman year at college. One of his classes has homework online. It requires Internet Explorer 5.x. However, IE is no longer offered. He has tried Firefox and Safari, and neither one seem to work. Truly I hate to put Windows on the mac. However, if nothing else will work, we will go to parallels and install 2000 or XP. Problem is, then we must add the virus protection and all that yuck.
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and if there was an alternative. He is tired of having to only do his homework in the computer labs...
Thanks,
John

IE is not required at all, as long as you use another browser and have it ID itself as IE to fool those sites and programs that might require it.
I use Camino along with CamiTools. Once both are installed, open the Camino prefs and look for the CamiTools tab at the top. In the bottom left corner is an option for "Agent Spoofing" and that is where you can select IE or any number of other browsers.
Both are free and very well worth having.

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