Zen Sleek Photo Installation Wo

Hey guys, I just bought a Creative Zen Sleek Photo MP3 player and i'm having trouble installing the driver. After plugging it in, windows detects the new hardware and goes thru the installation process the driver. At the end it tells me:
"Cannot install this Hardware.
There was a problem installing this hardware.
MTP Device
An error occured during the installation of the device.
The required section was not found in the INF."
There are only two INF files, one located in the root and one within Walmart/Files. I manually directed the installation wizard to both directories but the end result for both is the same. Nothing Happens.
Just wondering if anyone has encountered a similar problem or if there is a fix around for this?
Cheers
(winxpsp2)

Hello, I have had the same problem and had great help when I emailed creative.com. They recommended I uninstalled the software, disabled my broadband and disabled my spamkiller and security packages. Once I had done this I reinstalled and now my player was recognized immediately. This had never happened before. I now can download. Hope this helps Forgot to say also I had to make sure I had windows service pack 2.

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