Chris, you still getting the same old great results from that miniDV. It was your Saturn image that inspired me to start imaging with my Dob.
Eric, when i borrowed my mates miniDV i worked out you dont need a driver for this. Unless your using it as a webcam but thats only if your camera supports that feature. Essentially you record to the tape and then you can use a freeware program called WinDv
http://windv.mourek.cz/ to get the video onto your PC. Not this utility basically gives you control over the camera like a vcr deck. You can fast forward, rewind play etc. Very cool. Note further that capturing the video this way you will get a very large video file on your hdd which is in DV or DV-avi format. Usually then you can use a video editing package to turn this into a DVD. But for our purposes you just put it through registax.
I am not sure if windv will pass through live video to your computer though. Also some minidv camera's can pass through video from an anolouge source. For example a vcr connected to the camera's input AV cables (if it has them). This gives you a cheap Analogue to Digital converter to move your old analogue work to the PC. You could also use this feature with the security cams made for astronomy.
Regards
Fahim