I have an 8-camera home surveillance system. It really wants to talk to the mothership in China, but it will work without it. However, the only interface to i

I have an 8-camera home surveillance system. It really wants to talk to the mothership in China, but it will work without it. However, the only interface to its control box/recorder is through a plugin for Internet Explorer 7. I have to access it through a virtual machine running Windows XP.