Moved an old software (16 bit) program to XP, won't run.

We were running a spectrophotometer on a Windows 3.1 machine via a GPIB-PCII/IIA card, but when the computer died we couldn't find another one with the older card slot so we used ae trying the GPIB-USB-B on an WinXP computer. The GPIB Explorer can communicate with the instrument but the software program doesn't see the instrument. In the original help file for the spectrophotometer's software it says to go to system.ini and add the line device=c:\gpib-pcw\vdmad.386.
Since we no longer have this file we looked at the Windows\System32 folder and found several gpib*.dll files. We have tried gpib.dll, gpib-vdd.dll and gpib-32.dl, in place of vdmad.386 (we have corrected the path name too) so far but none of them have worked. We also ran the updatdos.exe successfully but seen no effect. We do have a Win 98 machine which has a USB port but we need a driver to run it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Originally we had a Windows 3.1 desktop hooked up to a Hitachi F-4500 Spectrophotometer via a GPIB-PCII/IIA ISA card. It had the installed software on it. The computer had been laboring for a while so we copied the entire System and Hitachi folders onto floppies. We were attempting to use a Windows XP machine computer with the GPIB-USB-B interface, but we were told a couple days ago that Windows XP doesn't support 16-bit programs anymore. So we found an older tower with an ISA slot and installed Windows 98. We got the ni driver ver. 1.7 and installed it. At this point when we go into Measurements and Automation we can communicate with the board. If we send an IDN? query it returns a binary address for the board.
Now we are trying to get the software to see the device. According to the readme file we need to make changes to autoexec.bat, win.ini and system.ini. The first two files were straightforward but in system.ini the modification calls for adding the device vdmad.386, since this is an older out of date file, we looked at the installed files by National Instruments and chose to install the gpibplug.vxd device instead. This worked better than some of the other choices like gpibnat.vxd or gpidnoif.vxd. However the software still comes up with two errors. When first attempting to bring up the program we receive the error "Unable to find GPIB device" after clicking on ok and attempting any of the functions (like Timescan) we get the error "Invalid GPIB setting (board or software)" and then the program closes.
I've recently attempted to make changes to the Registry due to this post http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=204735&query.id=219557#M204735
but that had no affect. We have the Windows XP machine and GPIB-USB-B interface still around. It does communicate with the instrument but we've had no luck with running the software.

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