OT Ugly fonts using XP/Parallels

[Mark Swindell]

Newbie question:

I've finally got Parallels and Windows XP Home Edition installed and  
running on a MacBook Pro... but

the fonts look terrible... .  thin and straggly and grayish... both  
in the system and Explorer

I've looked around the Parallels site for info and come up with  
nothing.  It's not right, as I looked at a friend's native XP setup  
and things looked fine.

Anyone here seen this, or have a solution?

Thanks
Mark