Anyone know what's the problem with canon eos 20d and connecting that sau to my little XP-PC?

Consider searching for updated Canon EOS 20d drivers.

Another approach:
Is the card removable and can one of those drug-store kiosks read it so you could put the images on a CD?

did the first one.
card is obviously removable – but i cant see the camera in my explorer. actualized it, no change.

downloaded driver from some website:
20DWI541EN.exe
5,24 MB
once clicked, it asked where to unpack a folder named
20DWI541EN,
which contained a *.ini file – normally suitable for a manual installation in combination with the great windows installer…
is it?

cant find drivers on the web…
. canon site said, there’d be no driver available for xp.

Try right-clicking on the ini and see if there’s an option to ‘install’. [I could be on drugs, but I thought there used to be].