USB problem with sony handicam

[remulon]

I have a problem with my sony DVD cam in that when the transfer software (Imagemixer) goes to access the camera, the system crashes every time. I've checked the drivers/ loaded unloaded software / everything as it should in device manager/ etc... In my research I've come across info that the USB ports don't always like sharing an IRQ with other devices and that this might be a solution if I can change the IRQ of the USB ports.
I run XP pro and the device manager shows a bunch of stuff using IRQ 9 along with the USB device. IRQ 10 is not being used by anything - I would like to get the USB using IRQ 10. The bios does not have options specifically for the USB IRQ setting - just options for setting the IRQ for different slots - even when I change these, XP seems to set the IRQ's to whatever its preferences are.
Is there a reasonably easy way to get XP to use a different IRQ? The manual configuration is grayed out in device manager so I'm not sure where to go from here.

Thanks,
Remulon

[edDV]

XP is usually good sorting IRQs on its own. First I'd try disabling and uninstalling all the USB controllers. Reboot a few times and then let them reinstall. XP should handle it.

I was going to make the ILink comment but I see this is a DVD camcorder.