MediaSource Organizer not seeing Zen To

Seems there are quite a few questions like this without any good answers (that i can find, i apologize in advance if this has been in fact answered before), so i am going to try and spell everything out as detailed as possible in hopes of help.
I have a 20GB Zen Touch and I realized there was a firmware upgrade for it about a week ago. Feeling that fresh starts are always best, I moved all my mp3's from the Zen Touch over to my computer, and formatted the device and uninstalled all creatives (old) software.
Next, I upgraded my player to the new firmware PlaysForSure v2..0.
Then I downloaded the "Creative Software Suite for PlaysForSure-enabled Creative Zen Touch Players" so my computer-side was also up-to-date.
The new Creative Explorer was a bit weird to me, but I synced my music from my computer back over to the player and then ran the cleanup and scandisk and stuff on it to get it all in top condition. My biggest rant about the new explorer type thing for the playsforsure firmware is it's lack of ability to really organize your music in an orderly and quick fasion.
This is where my problem comes in. I want to use the Creative MediaSource Organizer to organize my music on the player just like I use to on the old firmware. So I saw on the software suite download that it included a plugin for mediasource, so I figured it must still be compatible.
So I downloaded Creative MediaSource v3.30.2 and installed it, restarted and all that. So then I plug my Zen Touch into my computer and the usual window asking me what to do pops up. I close it and open MediaSource instead, but it does not even see my Zen Touch.
I have also tried installing the "Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox plugin 2.00.20 for Creative MediaSource" in hopes of that working, but it still does not.
So my question is basically, why won't MediaSource see my Zen Touch despite the firmware and updates saying it should?
Thanks for any and all help!

Install in the following order:
- Download and install the latest Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer 3.30.2 from your product download site. Make sure that you install this first before installing the rest of the MediaSource plugins listed below.
- (Depending on your product and firmware) For non-PlaysForSure Zen series: Download and install the latest Creative Zen and NOMAD Jukebox plugin 2.00.20 for Creative MediaSource from your product download site.or:For PlaysForSure Zen Touch: Download and install the Creative Software Suite for PlaysForSure-enabled Creative Zen Touch Players.
- If it is listed for your product: Download and install the latest Creative MediaSource Plugin for CD Burner 3.0.8 from your product download site.

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