On Windows XP, Microsoft IE, is there a way to make links to Word & Excel open up in their own software?

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I assume you mean can you have a Microsoft Office or Excel document open in that respective program when you click a web link to one. If that is what you want to do, perform the following steps:

Go to Start > My Computer then go to Tools > Foloder Otions and click the File Types Tab then scroll down the Registered File Types list until you find DOC (for Office documents) and then click the Advanced button at the bottom of the dialog box and uncheck the Browse in same Window option.

Do the same thing for the XLS extensions for Excel spreadsheets.

Hope this is what you were looking for.