This is exactly what I did for a membership survey/directory program for a local church congregation. The computer was a Windows XP box with no network connection or anything. But I made a module with its own basic server. Then I ran requests from localhost. At the time I used Active State to do things. Now- I'd skip that step and just use a PAR executable. Copy one file. Click on it and your off. If you can get fork to work on XP you could fork and exec an IE window. Nice and easy.