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Well I'm a transplant New Yorker. BTW I was just up in Maryland (near Baltimore) the last three weeks as I have family there.
Now, for your issue... If you're having issues with the scanner under XP, than it may be hosed. But... have you tried a different cable? I've checked on the scanner and see there's no firmware update so that's not an issue. And I know the Nikon V is one of the scanners that works with this fix as many here have reported, plus I added the tweak for it in the file some time ago.
Anyway if the scanner is bad, there may be nothing you can do with it since Nikon has discontinued servicing these scanners.
Sorry