Berkut,
My X52 is listed in Windows vista on the control panel. All the buttons work on the vista test. I downloaded the driver and editor yesterday. Here's the funny thing. FSX, FS9, Falcon 4.0 AF and Black Shark all "see" the X52, it shows up as the controller from within the game. It's green in my tray, so I know Vista sees it. I created a new profile using the new editor and you were right, it creates a new file, not dat file. When I drepess the certain key it shows correctly in the MFD, but doesn't perform the function. Long story short, it loads a profile but won't activate the functions on the buttons. I've been searching the forums and it looks like others have had this problem as well.
I'll keep working, might trying reinstalling the driver and editor. Sure would make my day if I could get this figured out. I'll keep working.
Thanks for the help.
Paco