No question we would be peer to peer if we could. There are sixteen employees (counting the Docs.) and some days as many as 3 Residents and a student. There are 22 computers on our net and we have a lot of managed care, all of which now uses the internet for authorizations and referrals.
I am a little confused. But, why would you go peer to peer with 22 computers and a limit of 10 PCs peer to peer with XP Pro. For me, a real server with server/client (although AC is not truly server/client within its own structure), would facilitate 22 machines on a domain much better than a peer to peer.
Wayne -- you are right. Multiple reboots on a peer to peer seems likely. Is anyone using the pseudoserver. That would be not good. Which brings you back to a dedicated machine hosting the data and do you want that being an XP machine or a server machine with Server 2003 or 2008 or SBS 2003.
And, yes, we could help you set up a server, although I would recommend someone being onsite. I could do it if I were close enough. Or, again, get an IT guy. We have to start looking at the network guy being part of the whole package.