I am going to try again from the top. Thank you to all who have tried to help me.....PLEASE continue if you have any bright ideas. It would be nice if somebody from LINE 6 would address my problem. Here goes:

I have an old desktop: Dell Dimention 8250 with Windows XP-Home Edition. All usb ports are usb2 (enhanced). This computer is running Service pack 3. It has Intel (R) Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GHz, 2.39 GHz Hard (most of it still unused), 512 MB of Ram. It also has an upgraded Creative Sound Blaster card with midi ports, aux rca inputs & spdif in & out.

I uninstalled all of the line 6 software & reinstalled it. I then upgraded everything in the Monkey. It gives me a choice of selecting the USB interface, my Guitarport or my Podxt. When I select USB interface it (workbench) says "no device detected". There is a blinking red light on the variax side of the USB interface.  One thing I have noticed is that the Guitarport & the Podxt both have ESN numbers & the Variax USB interface does not. Does this mean anything?

I have tried all of the USB ports (even with nothing plugged in to the others) & they all result in a blinking red light on the Variax in side.

I have a newer Laptop: Dell Inspiron (E1705)  9400 with XP Media Center 2002 & Service Pack 3. T2400 dual processors at 1.83 GHz, 988 MHz hard, 2.00 GB Ram. It too has enhanced USB2 ports. It also has an upgraded soundcard.

I am quite sure that both of the computers are 32 bit so the lack of a driver for 64 bit should not be the problem. I did everything to the laptop that I did to the desktop.

I JUST WANT TO BE ABLE TO TWEAK MY VARIAX ACOUSTIC 700 WITH THE WORKBENCH & USB INTERFACE I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR!!!!  IF LINE 6 CARES AT ALL, I ALSO OWN 2 GUITAR PORTS, A POD XT WITH A FLOORBOARD, WORKBENCH WITH USB INTERFACE, GEARBOX, RIFFTRACKER AND A VARIAX 700 ACOUSTIC. I THINK THAT SHOULD QUALIFY ME AS A GOOD CUSTOMER WHO SHOULD GET SOME HELP FROM LINE 6 TO RESOLVE THIS FRUSTRATING PROBLEM. HOW BOUT IT?????? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

LOVE

LEE