A few windows emacs questions

[Chris]

1) Does anyone have W3 working properly with gnu.emacs on windows? I tried 
about six months ago and could never get it working properly... have things 
changed?

2) If I install Cygwin, do I have to go through all the mount and 
configuration in my .emacs (which invariably screws up my AucTeX and other 
programs) or can I just call the Bash shell when I want to do something in 
the shell? I tried using some code to dynamically switch between cygwin 
bash and the dos shell as my default shells, but it did not work well. Last 
time I tried to move to Cygwin completely I had all kinds of problems 
trying to make some other tools, like Component RCS, work properly.