My mostly-reliable Hawking wireless device

my mostly-reliable Hawking wireless device recently died on me, so i bought a cert. refurb WUSB300N for my computer, running XP. i uninstalled the hawking program and installed from the cd and followed instructions, but once i finish installing from the adapter and get to the creating a profile page, including the first time, my computer freezes up. restarting the computer, leaving the adapter still plugged in, works fine until i try to run the linksys program, and it freezes again.

i tried installing drivers downloaded from a friends laptop, still froze. i tried uninstalling, disabling Zero config, and using a front usb port, and once again, the program froze at the creating a profile window.

i also get a warning when installing the hardware from the "found new hardware wizard" when attaching the adapter that says it has not passed the windows logo testing to verify its compatibility with windows xp. i have seen and ignored this before, but other times, the product still worked, so i thought it worth mentioning