Zen Xtra-Failure to uninstall and what to reinsta

My Zen Xtra (USB on XP) worked perfectly until the sudden failure of CMS to load a new playlist. The Zen itself still works fine. So I thought a quick uninstall reinstall would be reasonable but a 23. MB "Creative" file in "Program Files" would not uninstall.
Should I ignore this or how can I uninstall it's
There are now more files on the Creative Download site: 2 driver files, 2 firmware files and 2 other download files, many more than before.
Should I install them all?
Thank you.

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creative SUCKS!!!!
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if you keep it you will heading down a world of software HELL!!!!!
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I am gong though a hell like you would not beleve!
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Thanks for the feedback - I'll look into this and at least learn how to properly tag, determine how much time and effort it takes (I'm somewhat lazy)
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