I'm crushed!

Last August I bought a Sony eReader.  I got it specifically for loading my favorite fanfic on.  I chose it over the Kindle because it would handle the word docs directly and wouldn't require fancy Kindle email accounts and a "small fee" to load all my fic.

Last night I tried to load some new fic on the reader.  I got it all sorted and tagged in the eLibrary, connected the reader and then Windows crapped out on me.  Now it won't open the eLibrary at all.  I've done all the usual things, reboot, virus check, loaded the most current version from the Sony site, but no good.  I even chatted with a technician who's only solution was to uninstall the newest version and load an older one which "I promise will work".  Right.

So I checked out Calibre.  It looks good, but there's one tiny little line, way down in the text I was reading that says if you have Windows Vista 64bit, that you're "out of luck".  Yep, that's me.  Just out of luck all the way around.  It looks like their solution is to uninstall the Sony driver and reload their.  Which I've done. 

Now comes the scarey part.  I haven't tried to sync the reader yet.  I'm afraid I'll lose everything I do have on the machine already and I'm not sure I want to risk that yet.

My other alternative is to try to load everything up on my older computer whcih has regular Windows XP.  The kicker there is that I don't have much space left on the hard drive.  Too many songs and WoW take up what's available.  At least I think that's it's problem.  Plus, it was a custom made jobby a friend (ex-friend?) of mine put together and I've had problems with it in the past as well.   Duaghter-Type's boyfriend, a computer geek at Wawa, says "I've never seen anything like it" but won't be specific.

So, if anyone out there has run into this problem, what have you done to correct it, or am I really as screwed as it seems?