Hmmmm What you say is very interesting jmwiit. I am wondering if the whole thing is not USB related. I am looking at buying an Olympus E-10 SLR digital camera and the brand new Digital Wallet from Mindsatwork for moblie storage ($499 for 6 gigs of storage and the mobile drive takes data from Flash cards, smart media, IBM microdrive etc). Now I was just reading a review of the Digital Wallet and one of the problems that frequently arose was that if the D.Wallet (USB) was connected while the 'puter booted it was often not recognised. The solution was to connect it after full boot. I wonder if it might not be similar for the Tablet and some other USB devices? Just a thought. Regards STORM