Pathetic Noob Part II: Firewire Solo

Hi I'm baaaaa-aaaack.
Eureka on the FW6-9 pin cable. Yay.
New issue after installing drivers with CD-ROM, shutting down as instructed, carefully connecting FWSolo interface first, booting up again, I'm now getting the ole no device detected DO NOT plug in now for god sakes shut down restart or try reinstalling drivers.
Now as far as I know coming from Windows one should uninstall first. So I tried to uninstall from the FW_Solo folder uninstall icon but when I try to perform that operation eventually it tells me: That operation failed due to error 5364. You may wish to try again. :/ So I tried just reinstalling again. BTW when I did that the first time it gave me the green check mark that the installation was complete. The second time the same thing. But shutting down and connecting the interface still gives me the no device detected.
So my questions are:
Do I need to uninstall before reinstalling?
How do I uninstall if it keeps giving me that message the way I am doing it?
I have no faith that a reinstall is the ticket so failing that what else could be the issue and how do I fix this?
If it's not a faulty cable that is.
If it's a faulty cable I have a 1/2 day window to return it. But before I went to the store, in order to save public face, I wanted to see if I'm just pathetic and this can be easily fixed.
TIA
Message was edited by: bumbling in case you were wondering.

If I've annoyed you even a little bit already DO NOT READ ANYMORE. Click away, click away!
Driver update did the trick. That is pathetic enough. However, the worst bumble of all:
My first clue should have been that during installation with the CD-ROM I was informed that the installation would take up 0 space. I was thinking oh hey that's so nice, a lite program! UGH.
Not representing my country very well at all. Carry on eh.
Message was edited by: bumbling

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