Sansa Fuze MP3 Compatibility In Tiger vs. Leopard

Greetings!
Don't flame me for not going iPod but I have my valid reasons. In any case, I have a Sansa Fuze that refuses to come up on my desktop or in Volumes, though when plugged in it shows up in the System Profiler.
I have trawled the Sansa forums and engaged Sandisk Support with the following results and suggestions. All of which I have performed with no success, though two Sansa forum posters who are running Leopard on their Air and MacBook have reported no problems with their Sanza Fuze showing up on their desktop and being accessible as MSC devices.
Here are the results of the info I have received from both Sandisk Support and forum posters.
1. Update firmware = Done, no change.
2. Format device = Done, no change.
3. Rename device volume using a PC = Done, no change.
4. Force device into MSC mode by placing device into "Hold" then holding down the "Rewind" button while plugging in the device to the computer = Done, no change.
5. Try the device with other Macs = Done, no change.
All to no avail.
In the meantime, I have bought a microSD card, use a card reader and transfer/synch using SynchTunes. One extra step but I have and can use the MP3 player of choice.
On another Apple forum it was suggested to use Flip4Mac. I have the freebie version of Flip4Mac installed though don't see if this would help if I upgraded to the full version.
Thanks!

No help here. Too bad, so sad.

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