Matt/Robert....thanks for the input.......I came to the same conclusion and ordered a card reader last night....Jim

I purchased my optio s4 last week and it works fine....However after installing the USB drivers and acdsee from the provided cd I encounter
problems. Acdsee tries to display the thumbprint of the files from the camera but freezes the computer. I have uninstalled/reinstalled USB driver reinstalled windows all to no avail. I am runnong w98se on AMD duron 700 with 128 ram.....help please