xpsp3 refuses to install Fuze in msc/Auto mode

Nope. That’s what’s totally weird! I had read somebody else’s post where something like this happened, and they likewise could only get it to be seen properly in MTP.

I would like to format the player and reload it, but right now I’m trying to figure out how to get the music data off the thing as I think there are some tunes I do not have on my primary pc at the moment.  I suspect I am s.o.l.

Thx, tho.