Problem drivers for UMAX astrapix 550 and XP

The drivers work perfectly in Win-XP for this camera. I got one
yesterday. The manual doesn;t actually explain it, but I guessed cos
I'm clever like that!

1. Install the dirvers on the cd
2. plug camera into usb port and turn dial one notch. (once light goes
green you can turn to off position as camera is NOW powered by USB NOT
battery)
3. the camera will be recognised and drivers installed
4. unplug camera
5. Switch dial to pos 5 (software download) and select the 'other
setting' (select with u/down then press enter button)
6. replug in and Other drivers will be loaded

Use WDM setting for cam, use Mass storage setting for use as usb hard
drive.

I can assure you 100% it works. I have moved stuff to/fro it as a hard
drive + used it as a webcam in net meeting.

I am doing some testing and will post when done as there is JACK-SHit
info about this camera. Initial conclusion is its 'almost' amazing. It
does 4 things fairly averagely, photo, video, mp3, webcam (+ has a tv
output from where you can view photos/videos)

Initial findings :-

1) mp3 playback time on 4 x 1800 NimH AA's = approx 7 hours

2) Video mode = MPJEG 320x240 @ 15fps (approx 1800 kb/s)
+ Audio = PCM 176kb/s mono @ 11025hz
=> approx 17 mins video on my 256k compact flash
Video Quality is a bit lower than VHS I'd say but perfectly useable
when watched on a telly.

3) MP3 playback is very quiet and  fairly bass light. I'd guess it is
about half or lower than normal line input level. You can plug in any
headphones you want, I need to find some louder ones (anyone know any
good in-ear loud phones WITH inline volume control)

4) Weight with batteries = 300g

5) Picture quality - I dunno as I've not got much to compare it to.
Looks as good as when I've scanned in photos on a scanner. As someone
else said colors do look a bit washed out, but I'm just a happy
snappa. It has a lot of features that may improve on this such as
shutter speed / brightness ( 5 settings) etc, have to experiment to be
able to answer that.

It could have been awesome IF (in importance order ) :-

1) Volume of mp3 playback increased. + had a lock feature so playback
isn't stopped when dial accidentaly turned which happens far too
easily (a bit of sellotape is required). If it would allow a playlist
(just plays trax in order but you can stop and move to a diff track
and it will carry on from there) + ff/rw in track. The low volume
though really ruins this feature.

2) record using divx + mp3 (using pcm for audio = yuk) and up frame
rate to 20-25 fps then it'd be comparable to an analog video cam

3) It was a little bit smaller (it is about size of a small compact
film camera), but digi-cams these days are tiny, make it 1/2 the size
and deffo winner...

4) mp3 files are stores with long filename on compact flash BUT camera
only shows 1st 8 chars (old do