Sorry for being so snarky. Your answers do look promising and contain a lot of info I hadn’t read in a lot of thread browsing and searching, such as the P meaning Pacific.
I soon realized the e250 was part of the e200 series, but it is true that using the site search gives “no results” on searching for e250 at this location: http://www.sandisk.com/consumer-products Results: http://bit.ly/emOy2F
I guess that is because the product was discontinued. I should have searched in the support section where it does come up. Not a big deal, but since that search box was the first place I went, and I incorrectly assumed it would search the whole site, I found that to be, well, ridiculous, though I should be more polite, yes. My bad.
I did find the User’s Guide, but it didn’t make it clear at all whether one needed to run the CD install before using the device. It seemed I could infer the opposite. I then tried the firmware updator which needed the device to be recognized first. Then the detailed instructions on the manual install didn’t match the info I could access. You’ve set me straight it seems. Thanks. I hope it works. (yet to try.)
The sound quality does impress me. I will go try the manual procedure now.
