After having read all the posts here, you're all more than welcome to experiment with the UM anytime you want... it could be a collective effort!

Cheg, I wish I had more time, I'd love to help out.  My life has gotten so busy, I can't even find 10 hours or so to finish off my friggin Astro website!  In the future if things can clear up, I'd be happy to help.

Cheg,

I've looked into it a bit more and HS shouldn't be too bad to setup on your system with the given caveats:

1. It won't run smoothly.  The recommend a dual core as a minimum, you'll see some slowdowns on the flash animations with the setup you have.  Maybe not a deal-breaker, but something to be prepared for.
2. To get the movie previews you'll have to download them from emumovies.com.  The free registration limits you to a 250MB/day download and you cannot DL a file over 250MB.  I'm not sure now many files that entails, but people complain about it, so it must limit you to some extent.  There are varying levels of membership, the most is $60USD for a lifetime subscription.  For that kinda money though I think having him send you a couple of DVDs would be better.
3. The only torrent available (to me) appears to have avi versions of the preview files.  You can convert those to flv after the fact, but the torrent for MAME was over 9GB itself, so you've got a lot to download if you go that route.

The other option as mentioned is to use screen shots instead of the preview movies, which may be the way to go since your system might have trouble with the flash anyway.  I haven't tried to configure it for that, but it should be straight forward.

I've also found another FE called 'Angry Bee', I'll take a look at it tonight and see what it's like, however I think it's MAME only.