This turned out to be because the BIOS was reserving a whole load of it for nothing in particular (not just the famous graphics card reservation), so it was off to the Dell site for an update. Naturally, it could only be updated from Windows (non-Windows BIOS update tools being largely a luxury reserved for server boards), so it was another reboot into XP Pro (lucky I never deleted the partition), to be greeted with... this...
Please exits! No lowest-bidder tools for Dell! And then, when it was done...

Reboots are very exciting!
On the plus side, it worked, and I now have a luxurious 4GB. Makes such a difference; it feels like a new computer. I'm very tempted to get an extra 2GB for my laptop, to maintain parity.
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