PM8M2-V RAID array not recognised by WinXP Pro

Greetings,
i'm just setting up a PM8M2-V system with 2 x WD 80GB JD SATA drives. In the RAID BIOS i have configured the drives to be RAID 0 (striped) for performance and made them bootable. From a IDE DVD rom, i'm running a WinXP Pro (corp ed - no pre-installed service packs) install but the OS will not detect any drives in the system.
I have downloaded the VIA_RAID_OM74.zip file from MSI VIA PIDE-SATA RAID Drivers and Utility for creating the RAID drivers and tried to create a floppy disk with the WinXP drivers on it using the embedded (and slightly cryptic) VIA MakeDisk.txt instructions.
Containined on the floppy disk are the following files/folders:
a:\TXTSETUP.OEM
a:\PIDE\WinXP\viapdisk.cat
a:\PIDE\WinXP\viapdisk.sys
a:\PIDE\WinXP\viapide.inf
a:\RAID\WinXP\viamraid.cat
a:\RAID\WinXP\viamraid.inf
a:\RAID\WinXP\viamraid.sys
*plus the other MS operating system files in the similar directory structure*
Problem - WinXP Pro does not recognise this created floppy disk as a hardware support disk and will NOT let the OS recognise the SATA RAID array as a drive.
Complete system specs
MSI PM8M2-V VIA P4800 + 8237R (RAID)
Intel P3 3ghz HT LGA775 CPU
2 x 512 DDR-RAM PC3200
2 x WD 80GB JD SATA drives configured in a RAID 0 Striped set and bootable
1 x IDE DVD D/L Burner (Master drive on IDE Secondary Channel)
ATI Radeon 9250 128m AGP Card
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