[shendren]

Thanks guys. I've tried reflashing a number of times. I get a ERROR 101: Connection Error.

I am running Vista -- what do you mean "Turn off the USB connection"?

I noticed when I first made the bad load that Vista seemed to reinstall the PPC driver before it finally bombed out (I didn't catch what it said but I recognized it as such). I've been pursuing this for that past hour or two. I tried reinstalling the driver in the Device Manager. I tried doing a System Restore (I made a retore point this morning just in case). Nothing. This is a relatively new PC and I just got the phone to sync up to it earlier today, before I got bold and tried to upgrade the OS. At one point I know that the Device Manager had a PocketPC Smartphone driver listed under Other. Now it has a Microsoft USB Sync driver listed under Mobile Devices. Do you know which is correct?

I can hear Windows recognize the USB device and connect when I plug the Apache in it's cradle, except now it only makes the bu-bump sound once where it used to do it a 2nd time about 10 seconds later. Windows itself doesn't bring up that "Open w/ Media Player, open in files manager, etc." option window anymore. Neither Windows Device Center nor Sync Center acknowledge it as connected.

Best guess -- do you think it's the phone, or is it a problem with the drivers on my PC?

Thanks again for your help.

Steve