On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 06:42:10PM -0700, Tom Trebisky wrote: > Someone has got to be embarrased by the tale that follows.... > > Honest, all I wanted to do was read the images from a flash card > from my digital camera, honest..... A follow up to my own post, I just dug out a PS/2 mouse and now everything goes smooth. As I type, I am now reading the images from the third card (and all I do is plug and unplug) without a hitch. The whole grim scenario (and several hours of banging my head against the wall) previously described is due to some evil interaction between my usb mouse and my usb flash card reader. Apparently I do not have a USB bus, but rather a USB port alongside a USB booby-trap. It has now taken me 5 minutes to do what I had spent 2 hours in frustration trying and getting nowhere. Now if I can just burn a CD under FC3! Tom