Zen Micro won't connect to computer with WMP 10 or higher instal

I've searched high and low for what could be causing this problem and nothing seems to be working. I just recently formatted my hard dri've. Before I formatted it my Micro was working just fine with the computer and I had WMP installed. After the format the computer won't load the device with WMP installed, so I rolled back to WMP 0 and it still wouldn't load the device. Then I rolled back to WMP 9, that comes with Windows XP, and it loads it perfectly fine. I've looked for plug-ins and hotfixes and everything else and absolutely nothing is working. Everytime I plug the device in with WMP 0 or loaded it brings up the "Found New Hardware" wizard and then it times out when trying to load the MTP driver. However, I plugged it into my friends computer and it loads perfectly fine. The firmware on the player is the latest because I had to update it for WMP before.
The thing that I don't get is why it has trouble loading the MTP driver with WMP 0 or installed but when WMP 9 is what is installed it loads it right away with no problems. Does anyone know what I can do??Also, since I formatted the hard dri've all my music is currently backed up on the Micro so I don't want to have to format it. And as far as I know WMP is the only way to get all of the songs off of the Micro, if there is any other way to get all of the songs off that would be helpful too. I can get most of the songs off just by drag and drop, but I can't get all of them for some reason. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks

I have had this problem creep up on me lately, but it doesn't happen every time though. I've been able to get around it by trying two or three times to reconnect it, but a couple of times it got right stubborn. In that situation, it seemed restarting my PC did the trick.
Not sure if that helps, but...

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