Telescope Reviews: Toucam Woes

I just wanted to share my latest experience with the Phillips Toucam, which I purchased from a fellow Am. Astronomer on Cloudy Nights. I loaded the software on my Windows XP laptop. It loaded with all its modules without any fuss, and then I used it to take cool images of the moon and Jupiter along with its 4 moons, early last week. Alll worked fine. But then the following day when I wanted to launch the webcam software again, it started to give problems such as the following:
1. The software would not recognize the camera being attached to the laptop..it kept saying connect the camera before proceeding.
2. When it finally started to recognize it, after connecting it again the umpteenth time..it would not launch the webcam from the main menu..no matter how many times I tried.
So I checked the state of the Toucam driver, only to find out that it was disabled. But enabling it did not help either. Finally I decided to reload the software, so I wanted to start out a fresh. Hence I decided to uninstall and then reload. But every time I tried to uninstall, it gave me an error message, something about a corrupted ToucamPro.isu file. Now I decided to reload the software and see if that helps the situation any better..but the reload would not go thru either, proabably because it already detected the software on the laptop. Completely exasperated, just when I thought that I would throw in the towel..it came to me.
I went into the folder, where the corrupted ISU file was residing at..and renamed it to TOUCAMPRO.isu.old. Reloaded the software, and voila, it reloaded successfully, and launched the webcam without issues. Immediately I saved all of my images from the night before onto the local disk. The camera works fine now! What an experience!! Has anyone else been through something similar? Can you share your thoughts?
Regards
Name: Irfan A Siddiqui
Location: Tampa FL
Years of Experience: 5, observing manually via 6 inches Newtonian Reflector (ORION) without a tracking device or a GOTO system.
Biases: 6 inches. Would love to move onto bigger horizons, but not sure if I want a Dobsonian (No offense)