OK, so now that I have had the chance to check on my driver I am in fact using the RIOHD.SYS driver, which it seems for XP is not a good thing.

Looking at the release notes for updating the driver, it tells you to ....Choose to install the driver from a specific location and point it at wherever you've unzipped the emplode installer....

The emplode utilities are downloaded onto my C drive, but when I find the folder the OK button is grayed out. So then how would I go about updating the driver if the Wizard will not let me select the folder that the driver is located in???!!??!
thanks,
Ed