Thank you Dyre
I'm going to go ahead with my original plan of working on the game in RMXP, i only have to zoom the character sets after they are complete is all.
What i will be doing is spriting these at their normal size and then using the zoom and print screen feature to make them fit in Rmxp or VX (same for chipsets), they will actually look the same as they do in rm2k3 but i will now have all of the extra features of that program.
I'm curious what you other rm2k3 lovers think of this trick? You can still work on the smaller sprites, keep the look that you're familiar with and have all the extra stuff if you wish to use it.
Here's a little screen shot of the characters on the two programs side by side, as you can see they look exactly the same, i just zoomed them by 100 for XP use.
I also recreated the 2k3 template as you can see, more noticeable on the walking and all side frames.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/sidebysiderm2k3rmxp.png/