Vista - USB - found new hardware issue

I have a USB hub with printer, backup drive, external monitor - all hooked to
my new laptop with Vista. Everytime I start the laptop, there is a
continuous cylce of "Found New Hardware" and then a failure in installing
drivers. I have tried pointing to windows/system32 for drivers, but this
only works until the laptop is turned off and on again. I tried deleting
windows/inf/INFCACHE1 - but this appeared to do nothing. Any suggetions
welcomed!

* insinc:http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;937187
Error message when you try to install a new hardware device in Windows Vista: "Windows
encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device"

Go to the link below to request the hotfix;
https://support.microsoft.com/contac...1410&WS=hotfix


-Michael