Hello Miikerman,
I appreciate your help, as well! Although I tried this before, I just retried it on one of my PCs and on my Mac i7.
In neither case, however, I was successful: When I connect my player to my computer exactly the way you describe, the player’s display shows the flower like symbol and seconds later our well known error message. No reaction on my computers. They just don’t realize that I connect the Sansa Clip. 
In Germany it’s already quite late - I go to bed now.
Thanks nevertheless & greetings!
Chris
