Digital BW, The Print

I am having a bit of a nightmare with my printer. I use an Epson 2100
for printing B/W (using black only). I recently updated my computer
operating system from Win 2000 to XP and also updated my Epson driver.

This caused me numerous problems.
1.The new 2100 driver does not support 2880 dpi in black only mode!
2.Even though I was selecting 'Black Only' It was still using colour!!!!  
3.Everytime I turn on my printer, I get the New Hardware found message
and it tries to install the drivers again!

I resolved some of the problems by using the 2200 driver from Epson
US. I can now get 2880 dpi and use black only. My only problem is that
it still tries to reinstall the drivers everytime I turn the printer on!

It really is driving me to distarction. Does anyone have any advice on
this?  Thanks.

Martin