I never got back to that though instead decided to ask for help in general, to see if I was completely wasting my time anyways, also to try a newer version of Macrium & see if that could make a Win bootup rescue disc that included the right drivers etc. At that point I thought to rule out a Linux disc bootup issue I should try booting up off my original XP Install CD, or one of the Dell original bootup CDRs, or even try going into the BIOS again and totally removing the harddrive choice from the sequence altogether. Booted up again but with Linux CDR but the PC booted off the hard drive again. I changed that by removing the floppy option, which left #1 as CD/DVD, then moved harddrive to bottom of list, which left USB as #2, and harddrive as last option. So I got into the BIOS setting by rebooting and holding down F2, checked the bootup sequence, which was #1 floppy drive (the laptop does not even have one), then CD/DVD (which I assume refers to the internal CD/DVD drive), then hardrive, then USB.

System went straight to boot off the hard drive.

What happened when I tried to boot off my Linux Rescue CDRs (I tried several different ones,both in the builtin CD/DVD drive and also at same time in an external CD/DVD drive) was that they seemed to be ignored in the bootup sequence.

A couple answers/more info in regards to what TRF and jphugan mentioned:

Macrium reflect free v6