3G BT Broadband Huawei Modem problem with Tecra M5 or XP

Please can you help?
I have a Huawei E180 USB stick for accessing mobile broadband that was issued by British Telecom (BT). I want to use it with my Toshiba Tecra M5 (Model PTM 50E - 013013EN) laptop running XP Professional (SP3).
When inserted it is recognised by XP as a Huawei device but its pre-installed driver software does not autoload.
When I manually install the drivers downloaded seperately via BT connection manager software, I receive a generic/non specific Windows hardware conflict warning and the device will unfortunately not complete install and function.
I have spoken at length with BT support but despite sending me a replacement device and checking USB power supply the problem persists and they have been unable to help resolve the issue and have left the problem with me to try and resolve simply saying I must have a problem with my laptop!
As far as I am aware my Toshiba laptop and XP operating system have the latest released updates and other USB devices such as flash storage and WinTV tuners all work perfectly when installed so please can you advise what else I can try or what further information I can supply for you to assist me?
The device does install and work as expected in another Windows Vista Home Premium PC.

Eureka...Success thanks to Google and Huawei support.
Having run a Huawei diagnostic tool and displayed hidden devices in device manager, I discovered old Fusion and Globetrotter 3G/GPRS drivers were still installed despite having been removed by the add/remove software utility. So I finally uninstalled them from device manager.
This must have helped avoid any potential conflicts however, I think the main issue was missing usb.inf and usb.pnf files from windows\inf once I obtained them from another XP SP3 PC (a known good install) and put them in that folder, rebooted, reinstalled BT connection manager and rebooted again.
Then as soon as I inserted USB dongle it did everything it says on the tin!
So in the end a relatively simple fix in a matter of minutes....What a pity then since the end of July, I have had to sweat blood and tears myself, facing the wrath of 'the financial director' for wasting our money and my time, to eventually find a solution from Huawei (the manufacturer/supplier of the BT device) when BT Helpdesk could/should surely have got this answer quicker themselves and I bet this is a solution that many others will find resolves their problems as well. What a waste of hours and hours on the phone to BT Mobile Helpdesk.
Still a couple of minor glitches (do I really need 3 or 4 clients (2 at least from BT) trying to manage my wireless client?) and Desktop Help doesn't even support the 3G BT mobile device so why does it insist on trying to when I lose a signal?
Hey ho, rant mode over, the good news is I still have 4 or 5 days to use my 1GB 'free' allowance for this month. Finally, thanks to Tim Naish and Archibald Duffer on BT forum for their time and hope they find this solution of interest.

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