EQEMU on a Thumb-drive?

[Fulcrum]

Since thumb-drives are so inexpensive these days, I've been toying with the thought of using a thumb-drive as an XP boot-disk and using it to store all the static data for the emulator... while keeping all the other changing data (and doing the regular database backups) native on the system in question.

(Since each flash only has a certain number of 'writes', grabbing a total database backup onto the thumb would only be a once-in-a-while thing... or when it's time to upgrade the machine, itself.)

By my understanding of the way these things work, wouldn't this free up resources so that even smaller, more compact systems with less memory and lower computational power would be able to run the emulator with little noticeable loss of utility?

Not to mention the ability to have an 'EMU-in-a-FLASH'... the 5 minute setup, variety.

Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions, or see obvious flaws in my logic before I invest some cash in a few throw-away thumb-drives?