I find it hard to belive that the n52 is not a hid controller:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...r&aq=f&oq=&aqi=


Hid is part of the operating system go look under device management and see if the n52 is under HID devices.


If what you say is true get the saitech game commander pro (or whatever the newer version is called). you can do alts etc. with it.