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Unfortunately, that trick does not work either. I am the IT Director for a university. I have many computer labs, and I constantly am having to address this problem. All of my network drives begin with F:. Of course, XP will assign that letter to the USB drive as well.
If you begin your drive mappings with Z:, you will still not see the USB drive. It is now placed in Control Panel under "Scanners and Cameras". You cannot write to them from this area.
Assigning the drive letter will work for one person, if they continue to use the same USB drive. However, another USB drive, even the same make and model, will need to be manually assigned a drive letter.
I have learned to live with many of Microsoft's oversights, but this is one that should have been patched a long time ago. I usually stick with Win 2000 where possible, but CAD and visual arts software usually require XP. Shame on you Microsquat!
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