Just a reminder to others, like myself, who have the old MS Force Feedback Pro sticks with the Gameport connector; all these gameport-to-usb connectors you see on eBay, dirt cheap, are 99% certain not to work with these sticks. As usual with Micro$oft, they altered the wiring from standard, and so these cheap connectors won't work.
You need to get hold of the proper MS convertors, god knows where?
So we're okay as we are with XP, but Vista doesn't support gameport. But its not like we'll all be rushing out to 'downgrade' to Vista.