Icefluxx I agree about the big cartoon look in XP but if you change your setup to classic you can make it look just like W2k. That way you get all the benefits of XP (I can't believe I just said that

) without the cartoon look.
Have you checked that your USB ports are active in the device manager? When you open the usb devices there is a ID number next to each one. You may have to load new Chip drivers as there was some software issues with older drivers and USB device ID's.