Finding fonts is not going to be difficult, using them is (esp., for someone with limited computer skills) is going to not be so easy.

Fundamentally, what you need is a Chinese Input MEthod (IME). This way you can use your English keyboard to "spell" Chinese words and the characters pop up and are inserted into your documents.

I don't think this was in WinXP English by default, but in Vista, you can enable it by adding a "keyboard":

(1) Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
(2) Keyboards and Languages tab, click Change Keyboards button.
(3) Click Add and select Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan).
(4) Select the IME you want.

I actually like the Chinese (Simplified) Pinyin IME, but I just use a traditional font. I don't communicate often in Chinese, so I guess this works well enough.

Fonts install just like anything else and show up in Word or any app that supports strange double-bit beasts (two symbols per character), but it seems to work.

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