Epson Perfection 1250 stopped working after 2.65A driver upgrade

i have the above scanner. it was working with a driver i downloaded from Epson a couple of years ago. I went to the epson site and saw a newer driver was there, this is 2.65a epson scan and TWAIN driver. i downloaded it and installed it and now the scan application quits after 5 seconds. no msg nothing. i have 10.2.8 which the doc says is supported by this driver. i repaired disk permissions still no luck. the apple profiler sees the scanner on the usb port, and it makes a noise when the system is booted (i guess to show it's there) so since there are no error msgs i don't have a clue what's wrong. anybody had this problem. i'm going to try to find the old driver again, but right now no scanner :(( why do i try to be up to date, if it ain't broke don't fix it.