Installing USB Serial Driver on Windows XP

Have a new XP based pc.
No serial port for my old PalmPilot (circa 1997) to dock to though.
No worries I thought. Bought a USB-Serial connector and downloaded the USB-Serial Adaptor software from the Pilot website.
Only problem is, the hardware doesn't recognise the software "PalmConnect USB Adapter" ... can't find it even when told specifically where it is..
Has anybody else had this problem and if so, what's the resolution?
For info, the link to the USB-XP driver page is:
http://www.palm.com/us/support/accessories/usb/winxp_USB.html
Regards,
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b_mac wrote:
The mistake here was trying to use the usb-serial adaptor software from the Pilot website. Couldn't get it to pick up the connection at all and I suppect that it was rubbish anyway (looking at some of the files looked very w2k rather than xp!!). Solution: Plug the adaptor in by itself. Allow the hardware to install itself. Connect the serial cable and making sure I had the right COM port chosen (4 in this case), off it went and hot-synch'd.
I found the same situation as "b_mac" above. I tried his solution but the USB adapter driver failed to found the software and install, even when I pointed it directly to the folder where the driver was sitting. Still no luck. Anybody find a different solution that worked?
thx-mark
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