droid mounting in windows usb issue?

i can get my droid to mount on my windows 7 machine without hesitation.  however, when i try to mount it to my windows xp machine, it can’t figure out what the hell to do.

apparently google and android developers have been using a fixed usb driver that seems to work.  you can download it here:

http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip

some people have also suggested that you just use a different data cable than the one provided in the droid box.  as far as i know, the data cables for new blackberry devices should work.