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Richard,
I spent 10 months trying to get my Gstar to work with my laptop so I completely understand your frustration.
But perseverance paid off for me and now I can take advantage of the Gstar software to capture my images. (before I used a DVD recorder to capture the .avi's)
My laptop is a relatively new Acer Aspire that has been back graded to XP, I connect my camera, using an extra long AV cable (use only the yellow video lead) into the Belkin video capture device which in turn is plugged into a Ritmo PCMCIA Carbus IEEE 1394 + USB 2.0 PCMCIA card (approx $38}.
The beauty of video astronomy is that you can use an Alt/Az mount, polar alignment doesn't have to be spot on, it is much more sensitive than a dslr and best of all is the fact that you can observe in real time on your monitor.
What I can see through my little 80mm scope using the Gstar is far superior to what I can observe visually through my 10" scope.
I can't wait to get my 10" eq mounted, imagine what I'll be able to see then!!
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