Eureka!What happened to me was, I think (and there was so much fumbling around I'm not 100% sure, but here goes):At the first connection, Vista couldn't find the driver it needed (not sure about this) but mounted the Novel as though it were strictly a USB device, which is what it looked like I guess. I ended up with the PC thinking it had a USB drive. My impression was that I wound up with an android_winusb.inf file that did not match my device ID. It wasn't clear to me where to get that ID, but eventually I found it in device manager - universal serial bus controllers - details - hardware ids, but that wasn't quite right. Even so, every time I tried to use device manager - action - add legacy hardware to install the driver, it would give me a code 10 error, installed but the device couldn't start. On another site, where someone was working with an Android phone (found by google),
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2676mugafuga said you need to uninstall every single usb controller, even though they are working, and let Vista re-install them. He said then his adb was automatically correctly installed. He had also said you needed usb debugging turned on. (Note that mugafuga said it took him 4 days to figure this out.)I had once seen that screen, and did not recall how I had left it, (don't recall how I got there, either) so I did a reset on the device (didn't have much on there yet anyway) and now I could tell that usb debugging was on once I plugged in the cable, via the message in the top bar.Mine did not automatically install adb, but after rebooting Vista, I NOW (first time) had an unidentified device in the usb section of device manager, where I saw the device id with the b004 form (not the a004 I saw earlier). With that correctly edited into the inf file for the driver (which was, I think how it started out), I was finally able to install the driver. After that, I used Nate the great's instructions to install the volume button hacks and PandaHome.I was then able to install the other apps Nate had included (eReader, Kindle, Aldiko) so I'm now poking around for what else I can add, and how to get back to the BN reader app. So far, I can get back to it via the original Home screen through PDSystemSetting and closing that, but it isn't a direct route.So I hope this helps.I agree that the forum search function is not the greatest (this is true of a lot of forums), and when I started doing this, I got that Server Error 500 message almost every time I tried to move to a new page.Note that all of this is really related to getting the driver installed, and not to the PDN itself. Note: All of the default books in the BN reader app disappeared after the reset, including the Novel manual, but that is now back up on Pandigital.net and I can get it there. The one lousy music file, however, remains.