Possible Solution to USB problem: Targus USB Mini Optical Mouse

I just got my new Dell Latitude D600, rebuilt it with Win 2000 (came with XP home, yuck...), installed all drivers and tested it. Everything seemed to be fine, until I plugged in my mini USB optical mouse (PAUM01). The thing would work fine, but then failed everytime I restarted the laptop, getting the yellow ! icon in Device Manager. After, tweaking around I think I found the solution:

- go to BIOS setup screen (press F2 while booting)

- move to Page 4 on the BIOS screen

- Set "USB Emulation" setting to: disable (don't know why this needs to be on? who's using OS without USB support anyway?)

It seems to work fine so far....