VF0070 Driver crashes XP after hibernation (Webcam Ultra for Notebooks)

Hello,
I own a Creative Webcam Ultra for Notebooks, Model VF0070. I found an issue with Windows XP's hibernation.
Situation: the Webcam is plugged in to my computer before switching off the computer into hibernate state, then unplugged while off and unavailable during restart.
In this case, Windows crashes into a blue screen, quoting the Creative driver as the cause.
My system is:
Creative Webcam Ultra for Notebooks, Model VF0070
Webcam driver V.0.5.27
Dell Latitude X (Intel Centrino chip set)
Windows XP
Skype as webcam application
Did anybody experience similar effects? Is there a workaround or a fix?
My current workaround is unplugging the webcam before hibernation. Or alternatively, taking care that I plug in the webcam _before_ waking up the computer from hibernation. But every once in a while I forget and XP crashes again.
Thanks for any help,
Bernhard

never mind i've sold my creative webcam pro ex to another idiot and going to buy a new one today, i looked at mediamarkt and saw some other creative (pro) webcams sold at almost the same price as my previous Creative Pro eX, however knowing how Creative thinks about updating drivers and misleading people saying the product is working with Windows XP when it does not, i will never ever in my entire life buy a product from Creative anymore..
think it's kinda stupid to say "hey my software is compatible with XP" when it's not and when it hassen't been updated for quite some time, do you live in 2005. you know XP has updated to SP2? right...
this expensive webcam has worked 7 months for me and now? it just keeps crashing my laptop saturating my USB, conflicting with [usbuhci] and then give a moran BSOD which i haven;t seen since windows ME :-s
the latest drivers for this webcam arren't signed and they do not work with Windows XP Professional SP2 so anyone who's planning to buy this webcam today, please buy it somewhere that has a return policy because this webcam was the best but now has become cripple.
one thing more, if you people at Creative are to busy with making money with products and don;t have time to develop working drivers then maybe consider giving out the source code so that serious developers are able to create working drivers for people that don't want to buy you're webcam every 7 months not because the webcam is broken, but because you where too lazy and money hungry just want to push people into buying yet another one of these webcams.
oh well not my problem anymore you will see someday the consumer strikes back and then you will be left with a magazine full of hardware nobody wants to buy cause the compagny doesn't provide updates on their own drivers and software..
--i'm out of this mess--
Message Edited by spablauw on 04-01-2005 03:36 PM

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         1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc.  Insert the disc into the
             optical drive and restart the computer.  After the chime press and hold down the
             "C" key.  Release the key when you see a small spinning gear appear below the
             dark gray Apple logo.
         2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
             button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
             After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
             size.)  Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.  Set the number of
             partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, set the format type to Mac
             OS Extended (Journaled) then click on the Apply button.
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             with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
         4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
             Assistant. When you finish Setup Assistant will complete the installation, after which
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             by opening Software Update and installing all recommended updates to make your
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