A couple of weeks ago I bought a new notebook computer running Windows XP. On my old desktop I'm running Windows 98. My Sony digital camera uses (obviously) memory sticks. To read those on my desktop I bought -about two or three years ago- a floppy disk adapter.
To my surprise Sony offers no XP drivers for this adapter, they do however offer a later model floppy disk adapter that will run under XP: costs $79.
Cheapest alternative I found at the local Circuit City was a PCMCA card memory stick adapter (not Sony) running $49.

I know this problem also exists with other brands, nevertheless a frustrating experience and it didn't help improve my opinion of Sony.