Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED

While I am pleased with the scanner itself, I am very disappointed with Nikon's lack of driver support.  I recently updated to a computer running Vista 64 and discovered that this expensive scanner is not is not supported with an appropriate driver from Nikon.  I went on line and read numerous accounts of this problem by other users.  Based on these accounts and recommendations, I was able to purchase a driver by a third party, VueScan ($79.95 - Professional Single User Edition), which seems to work fine with Vista 64...But shame on Nikon and their customer/equipment support, or lack there of.