He needs to run MS Access and there isn't a Mac version. He's got Mac Office already.
There doesn't seem to be a useful way to use Access files on a Mac (since the jet.dll engine doesn't run on Macs nor have a Mac version) and a file translation capability doesn't seem to exist.
I'll mention the Virtual PC option again and look at the Toshiba notebooks. Thanks. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.