W500 card reader problems- with a wrinkle??

My card reader won't recognize SDHC cards. I have a W500 (4061-BL2) running Win XP Pro, Service Pack 3. I installed the latest drivers for the 4-in-1 reader (Ricoh Multi Card Reader driver 3.64.02 which does show up in the "Add/Remove Programs" listing). Based on reading this forum, I considered KB934428, but, when I tried to install the hotfix, I learned it is not needed with SP3. (I didn't try to install KB923293 which is the other hotfix frequently mentioned for this problem as it appears to be older than the ...428 hotfix??)
Everything appears to be normal in Device Manager.
When I try to insert a Kingston 8GB SDHC card (that I know has pictures on it as I can see the pictures on my Canon camera), my system does recognize the card (under "My Computer", it shows up as "SD/MMC (E", but, when I try to access the card, it only says "The disk is not formatted.. Do you want to format now?".
I know there are 20 other forum posts on this problem, but, mine appears to be somewhat unique with XP SP3.
Like everyone else with this problem, I can read the card just fine with a USB card reader.
Any help will be deeply appreciated! Love the W500 except for this nagging problem as I am really anxious to use the card reader.

I just fixed a co-workers Ricoh 4-in-1 reader by following these instructions
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-70881
It says it's for R61 but worked on W500.
Running Windows XP Pro SP2. I tried the Lenovo Drivers but they didn't work.

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