Everytime I ran scanimage --help -d epson, it seemed I got a bit farther. After rebuilding it a couple more times, I tried it with xscan and that came up with a choice requestor showing the old plustek and the new epson as the choices.
Choosing epson, I ran it thru its paces at 300 dpi. 1. Any color corrections aren't instantly visible in the preview window, thats a bummer. 2. The scans are very very good! ALL the crazy shading I had is gone like a greyhound bus. I'm a happy camper :-) -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.03% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly