why would anyone WANT to do this? i'm not the biggest IE fan, I use firefox when I can, but IE is needed for integrated WinXP functions. for example, the biggest problem with getting rid of it would be this.... how ya gonna use windows update?
you'd have to manually download updates for everything or you would have to use sms 2003 or wsus, which also i think might use IE functions, maybe
best thing to do is just not use it, and also i think winxp sp2 has an easy option to get rid of the shortcuts and default browser integration.
for now, just trust me on this, if you wanna use winxp for general usage, DONT delete IE6. just keep it around in the background, but dont use it unless it's for windows update, or specific IE6 sites like hotmail, etc etc