So I take it no one has the slightest clue? Is there any other forum you could recommend I visit? Right now I cannot use my fingerprint reader and I really need to find out what's wrong. I might even try to get rid of this laptop.

I have T500 2081CTO. Came natively with Vista Home, but I reinstalled with XP Pro SP3. All the latest updates both in terms of drivers and windows are installed (as of March 12, 2010). I have had this laptop for about a year and the fingerprint reader used to work fine. Some months ago it stopped fu...