[syslinux] USB question

[Rich Mahn]

The BIOS on my laptop does not support booting from USB.
I would like to be able to have my Windows XP on a partition
on a USB disk drive and be able to run from the USB disk using
perhaps a CD or floppy to bootstrap the system.
My questions:
  1). Is there a way to use syslinux and friends to do this?
  2). If not, is there some other boot loader that may work?
  3). Is there any hope at all?

Rich