HELP! Syncing issues with Zen To

I'm getting completely frustrated syncing my Zen Touch to either WMP 0 or MediaSource Organizer. In both cases, I get an error that the player is not connected or busy. I do manage to get through part of the sync before it fails though. Why am I losing my connection? It's really annoying to sync one album at a time.
Here are the details:
All drivers are updated.
All software arelatest versions.
USB wire is ok, not broken.
No other programs running.
P4 Compaq, 933 MHz, 52mb RAM, Win XP sp (I really don't want to update to sp2 yet, concerned about some programs not running).
USB .
I've reset the player and run a disk cleanup.
Any suggestions, this is really making me hate an otherwise excellent product.

hey Wilco,
thanks for the response. I've definitely had some success with the Nomad Explorer, but I've been ripping tons of CDs lately, and I'd really like to use a feature like Audiosync that will scan for changes and sync. My iPod friends are laughing at me right now. They'll have really good reason to laugh if I have to resort to dragging and dropping individual albums.
Usually, I'm able to sync some files before my computer tells me that the Zen is disconnected or busy. Once that happens, rebooting and even resetting the Zen doesn't help, Explorer doesn't work, etc. The only option at that point is to reboot my computer. Sometimes this happens after I've synced several cd's, sometimes it happens after I attempt my first song.
I know I can probably get around this problem right now by dragging and dropping files via Nomad Explorer (well, actually, I HOPE I can get around this problem with Nomad, I haven't attempted large amounts of transfers via this method yet), but I'm looking for a good long term solution. Especially since my iPod friends are laughing...the *******s...
Thanks for any suggestions.

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    To see the stream with the Akamai player, go to:  http://live.kulabyte.com
    To see the stream with the OSMF/Strobe player, go to:  http://live.kulabyte.com/osmf
    I do not have JW set up for public viewing yet, but the two above show the distinct difference.
    We are really hoping to start pointing our customers towards the OSMF player because of the support provided by the community and Adobe, but we have to get the quality of the playback to be acceptable first.
    If someone has ideas on debugging I can PM the actual video assets to you.
    Thanks,
    Tim

    Hi Tim,
    You need to add this setting:
    dynamicStreamBufferTime=8
    The actual value can be higher or lower. The best practice is to use a value that is twice the keyframe distance. Anyway, try different values and see which performs the best for your content.
    I know that the setup page does not contain this option and it is not documented in the UserGuide. We simply missed it. Sorry.
    Also note that the dynamic buffering algorithms are not being used for dynamic streaming content. I tried to explain this here:
    https://sourceforge.net/adobe/smp/wiki/Dynamic%20Buffering/
    Looking forward to your confirmation that this solved your issue.
    -Andrian

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