Thank you Zig. I just boxed an hp 6210 to get this out of my sight. I decided that a flatbed with no paper tray was better since I have no issues with my default printer. I looked at a consumers report fav, Canon canoscan 9000F and an hp scanjet 3110 as possibles. I like the scan negatives/35mm slides feature. Both remarked something like, "all features may not be compatible with XP. Thus I am asking if anyone knows just what won't work? I am a little challenged, but ongoing probs with my pc keeps my vocabulary growing as I wear out my ISP tech's online.
Thanks for your reply.