Zen Sleek photo not recogniz

I had my zen sleek photo working fine for about 3 weeks, then all of a sudden it's not recognized.
I've spent the past 3 hours looking around on the site and messing around, and i've given up hope.
I've reinstalled the software, installed and reinstalled the drivers, rebooted and cleaned up the zen player, tried deleting my USB ports and reinstalling them, tried different ports, tried the permissions and the usb zen connection registry hacks, pretty much every solution i can find.
I have win XP, SP2. I haven't got a hub, i've tried all 6 usb ports on my computer (overkill i know), taken out all other usb connections except for my mouse.
I don't necessarily want to update firmware on the player as most people say that only messes things up and you can't go back, but seeing as it only recognizes the player as an MTP device i doubt I could update anyways.
In the device manager, the zen shows up as a portable device, and there's a little ! by the picture (meaning it's not working properly, obviously). When you expand it, there are clearly no drivers for it as it says the driver info is not available.
When I first plug it in, it recognizes the device and tries to find applicable drivers for it. I've let it search my entire computer before, and it supposedly finds something as the two folders appear with data transferring between the two, but immediately afterwards it stops and says:
"There was an error installing this hardware:
Zen Sleek Photo
An error occurred during the installation of this device
A service installation section in this INF is invalid."
I assumed this meant my drivers were bad, so I went on a mission and found several different drivers, and installed these, but I guess they didn't work as it still doesn't work.
I downloaded the Zen Sleek Photo XP PlaysForSure Firmware upgrade program, and it says "Your player is not connected, please connect your player"
The Zen charges, so the cable is OK and I haven't done anything to it since the last time it worked.

yep. man mine did the same thing. i emailed the crew here and they said to reset it. w/ the lil reset button. they also said to enter it in recovery mode. i didnt know what that meant. lol so i just reset and tried it. then it werked

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