Well, as much as I might look like a dong for digging this old thread up, the insanity that came with selling the house is over and I can finally afford to dig the old thing out and try to get it to work again. I'm willing to start cleanly over, driver-wise, so long as I don't need to reinstall Windows or anything that drastic (yet...).

Just to see what would happen, I plugged it in again and, lo and behold, there was nothing. Windows gave me a little 'ding' noise and told me that something had been plugged in with the appearance of a little icon in my taskbar, but also as usual, there was no sign of it when it came time to access my files. Not long afterwards, Windows dinged me to let me know that the device had been disconnected (it hadn't been) and the icon disappeared. I'm back at square one, it seems.

Does anyone have any insight? At all?