Windows serial key does not work!

Hello

I bought a Sony Vaio laptop in 2006 until very recently it has stopped working, however it came loaded with Windows XP Professional. I bought this laptop in the Japan and is an international Version.
Now, I would like to use the Windows XP Professional in my spare pc, now I live in the United Kingdom and borrowed a copy of Windows XP, I noticed that the serial key is not recognized.
I went on the manufacturers Web site and they do only not naked recovery disks of operating systems, I went also to the microsoft article:
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/326246/en-GB
but again demand $30 for the CD to ship.
Can you please tell where I can find the correct version of Windows XP to download?
Kind regards
Zak

Copies of OEM Windows (for example, these pre-nstaled in laptop computers) CANNOT be used for any computer on which they were first installed.

You will need to purchase a new Windows license, or use the good recovery media for the computer you are trying to install.

Windows XP is not publicly available for legal download

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