No, you will not get progressive scan.
Firstly, PAL xboxes don't have progressive scan output, it's disabled. This is partly due to there not being an 'official' progressive scan standard for PAL (as far as I know).
Also, no HDTV's are available or made for PAL television standard.
You can hovewer get a progressive scan TV in a PAL territory, but these are super expensive plasma displays wich also are terrible for gaming because of their burn-in problem. But you'll only get 480p, neither 720p nor 1080i HDTV resolutions (which almost no xbox games support anyway).
The televisions refresh rate makes no differance on progressive scan or not. It only tells you how many times the TV refreshes the image in a single second. The only benefit of a 100hz TV is that it's less straining on your eyes to watch (making it look sharper, though the picture itself doesn't really change) and you can play games that support it in 60hz, i.e. in 30/60 frames per second instead of 25/50 frames per second.
You can't use the Xbox high-defenition cable with an unmodded xbox. And you cant plug component (or composite like you said, plus you can't get progressive through composite!) plugs to either the HDTV cable or the scart adapter. Plus, if it were composite you'd be getting worse picture quality than your normal scart cable straight out of the xbox. Scart cables are as good as it gets in picture quality in PAL. But using the scart adapter with the composite cables isn't the same as a scart cable, it's worse.
If you have a mod-chip however, you can switch your xbox to NTSC mode and enable progressive scan... But then you'd have to shell out for plasma screen to make use of it.
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