In 2005, I got S&T 2005 with the GPS locator device. Everything worked great. Flawless. Perfect. Loved it. Upgraded to 2006 when it came out, again without incident. Last November, 2007 was released with an upgraded locator device, but since I already had a perfectly good one, I ordered Streets & Trips 2007 without the device (clever me - I saved about $80) and it arrived from Amazon.com shortly after the release date.
Upon installing over the 2006 edition, I found that it simply uninstalls 2006 (or whatever earlier edition one may have) and cleanly installs S&T 2007. Fine. Whatever.
What it never told me is that it flushed all the drivers for the GPS locator device I had. Same program, just a newer version, and it paid no mind to my existing device. Not recognized. No support. Found nothing at microsoft.com about the Pharos GPS-360 device. I didn't get it. I still don't.
What I finally stumbled upon was at some 4-wheel-drive site that somehow had the drivers for this device. I installed these separately and the device worked perfectly. I don't know why the device isn't supported naturally by S&T 2007, but I'd found a fix and had helped a few friends with this issue. I thought it was over.
And then I got this new computer with Windows Vista. Different structure to the operating system. Some things still don't work. And all I had was this driver installer program written by some people who use Google to speak English. It said it successfully installed the drivers for this GPS-360, but when I plugged it in, Windows couldn't find anything to support it. This went on for several days as I downloaded the latest stuff from pharos, installed it, plugged in my GPS locator, and had no luck. Several times.
Then I got wise. I still had the discs for S&T 2005, and the drivers just had to be on there, didn't they? Tonight I put the setup disc in and browsed it for the drivers. They were there, and I was set. So I plugged in my locator and waited for Windows to tell me it couldn't find the drivers for my device...
And somehow it found them automatically. I don't know if it found them on the CD, or finally saw what I had installed seven times previously, but it works. And I'm happy. I'm writing this so that Google may index it for people looking to ease their troubles with Streets & Trips 2007 using the Pharos GPS-360 device. Here are the drivers from the S&T 2005 disc in case they happen to work for you.
Update: Some folks may have trouble with the zip file I've got. Here are the driver files as they are on the Streets & Trips 2005 CD:
GPSDrvrs/NT_XP:
ser2plms.cat
ser2plms.inf
ser2plms.sys
GPSDrvrs/98_ME:
SER9PLMS.sys
sersplms.INF
SERSPLMS.VXD
serwplms.INF
