Yeah, you need Pro as opposed to Home if you have a multiprocessor board with more than one CPU installed, otherwise you're burning electricity in the extra physical CPU(s) without being able to use the extra CPU power available. But, if you have a uniprocessor system with a hyperthread capable CPU installed, buying XP Pro instead of XP Home will upgrade Bill Gates' pension rather than your system ;-)
Pro has other advantages such that I'd not want a copy of Home on any of my systems... the two most important (to me, anyways) are Remote Desktop (vastly superior to any of the alternatives like VNC or PC/Anywhere), and proper file security controls (stripped from Home to the point at which its very difficult to gain access to a foreign NTFS volume). Also, domain membership is important for business systems running in Windows Server based networks.
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