I am having a little (ha ha lot) of trouble instaling the driver I got for this scanner the problem seams to be that the "webxp.exe" program wont run in XP as it's 16 bit & is not suitable for running in xp. even though ther river is said to be for xp! Any ideas?

Well, I'm having equal trouble finding a Mustek 96CP scanner. Mustek never made one to my knowledge. The closest match I can find is a Mustek 9636CP.

http://www2.mustek.com/Download/mustekdrivers.html