To answer some of your questions:

I haven't used another mouse since xp.

The disconnecting problem happened again today, and yesterday for that matter.

As far as usb 2 goes, i'm sorry, i thought you could use these drivers for any usb ports, but i guess i was wrong.

I tried unplugging the mouse from its port and my comp froze.

I believe the first time that the mouse disconnected was about 2 or 3 weeks after i installed xp so i wonder if it was one of the updates or something i installed after that caused the problem.

Talking about problems with xp, does anyone know how to delete something that windows can't delete for some reason?

For example, the add/remove application cannot remove a game that i've installed before xp. It hangs...

Another undeletable file is a movie which i partly d/l from kazaa ( not a porno ) and i wanted to check the quality of it, so i copied to another folder, changed the extension to avi.
But it won't play, it hangs. So i exit media player, and try to delete the file, but it says i can't because some other app is using the file, yet nothing is. That file is about 500 megs...

Thanks for helping out,

JTAx

(sigh) i remember when i first installed xp, it solved a lot of glitches i've been having with 98, but i guess it's no fine wine either...

JTAx