Phew!

Well that was a pain. It turns out that Creative don't write the most forgiving of software, and Windows Mediaplayer 11 performs some unnatural acts with recognition of the drivers. Rolling back WMP11 (every last bit of it) to WMP10, enabled the MP3 player to be recognised... then it was just a simple matter of downloading the firmware again, and reloading nearly 4000 tracks of GF's favourite music.

By the way, this is the Gorse Fox's 3,000th2,900th (oops, a little premature) blog entry.