Connected Player BEFORE Setting Up Software

I just got a Zen Micro 6gb today and I was in a hurry to get it going, so I plugged it into my computer and then opened up the little notebook that comes with it. Much to my dismay, I find on page 4 the following bold message: "WARNING - DO NOT connect your player to your computer before setting up the software."
I'm assuming that me missing this warning is the reason why when I put my 'Installation CD' in that it brings up the full-screen Creative thing...then the little setup box that is supposed to start telling you step-by-step what to do, just stays blank. I don't understand how simply connected the player via USB to the computer for less than 60 seconds could cause the CD not to function properly, but hey... I'm new to this Zen thing.
I hope there's an easy fix to this. Please help ASAP. Thank you

You'll need to provide information about the version of the firmware installed on the player as well as the version of Windows (including service pack, if any) you're trying to install upon. It isn't really possible to determine what the problem could be without that information.
If you're trying to use the Zen Micro with Vista the drivers on the included CD are likely useless. Vista was only a beta OS at the time the Zen Micro was manufactured and marketed. To work well with XP and Vista it would need to have the "PlaysForSure" firmware installed (so it will appear as an MTP device). It could also be you need to install the driver software with Administrator privileges if account restrictions are in place.

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Server Screenshot Client
Screenshot
>>An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
From the error message,
Firstly please try to check if there is a firewall between the sender and receiver, make sure that it does not closing the connection because of idle timeout, or just turn off the firewall for testing.
Also someone try to reset to solve the issue.
<Copied>
The issue here was the timeout on the central distributor. That was causing the connection to reset when the receiver did not
pick up the message within the time limit. Alter the reset, when this program tried to receive on the socket it would fail with "An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine" and this generated the failure audits.
</Copied>
In addtion, there is a thread talking about the similar thread, please have a look.
C# An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
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