Kensington trackball

[RickC Sniper]

Guys, I use a Kensington trackball and I need some help.

I have my tower a considerable distance from my monitor so I need to use long cables or sometimes even splice in order for cables to reach.

The trackball is a usb and I've been using a usb to ps2 converter and a standard ps2 cable. All was fine, except Windows 7 recognized it as a standard ps2 mouse. (Kensington had no Windows 7 driver anyway)

Now Kensington finally released a Win 7 driver but Windows did not recognize my Trackball when I tried to install the driver, so the driver install failed.

I got a powered usb hub and tried plugging the trackball into that, figuring Windows should recognize it when plugged into a usb port.

However, with it is plugged in via usb my computer won't boot. It hangs up and I have to force a reboot. Now when attempting to boot up it goes to 2 options...."Launch startup repair" or "start normally" are the 2 choices. Neither option works....the pc just hangs at "starting windows". I cannot even get it to load in safe mode. It DOES say in the boot sequence that it detects the usb hub and mouse.

Weird thing..... plug my trackball into the ps2 port and all is good again.

My question: Why do you think windows 7 won't boot when my trackball is plugged into its usb port?
I assume I need to use the usb to get the driver to work.
Got any suggestions?

The reason I want this to work is because currently I cannot use any of the advanced features of the Kensington and those are important to me.
I was pissed when I lost them when I moved on to Windows 7 and had to wait on Kensington to deliver a driver for it.

Kensington is no help.