I emailed the driver to the friend that has the 9600 and he will get back to me.
Brian, et al...
I know I always like to hear the follow-up on a problem, and solution, so here's the scoop on the Epson 9600 driver.
Yes, the Vista 64 bit driver worked perfectly... a little stubborn on auto finding a port, but we manually assigned one.
Works perfectly..
Thanks for your advice and help.
Fred