[chevy454]

the problem was that the win9i8 cpu isn't on the net, and we don't have internet here @ the house other than my tp2, so a driver install wasn't happening. but i'd forgotten i'd had a small network set up at our old house until i pulled the desktop out and was looking at the back of the cpu...well, i'd left the network card in it, so i grabbed my laptop and an ethernet cable and beamed it over the network...20 minutes later and i'm done. sometimes i make things sooo difficult!

thanks to everyone for the suggestions, though!