T500 with XP recovery disk attempting to downgrade from Win7 64bit to XP

I need to install a particular client that has not been certified on Windows 7.  As such, I need to downgrade to XP.  Do you know if the XP recovery disk that is offered is a 64bit version of XP?

Good suggestion Bananaman, and I will certainly attempt it.  It will most likely be the first step I take.  However, it still wouldn't solve my problem at its heart.  It's not the "getting it to work" portion that is the issue.  While I might get it to work, it would be on a system with a "mode" that has not been certified.  However, XP64 has been certified.  Therefore a clean install might be the only way to go.  As such, I still need to know if the disk included is a 32 bit XP or 64 bit.

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