Unfortunately I'm about to give up and go back to Windows. I'm so tired of fighting Linux and/or sane to get my scanner working. It works fine one day and the next it doesn't. If it's permission problems then they really need to rethink how permissions are granted as so far it's been a real headache.
Just in case I'm loosing anybody I'm again having problems with sane. I've posted it already in this thread so I won't do it again. I'm just tired of messing with this. It's become a big nightmare. People can say what they want, but I've never had this many problems setting up hardware in Windows. I truly want to stick with Linux, but I've got to have this scanner working reliably and consistently. I can't reconfigure permission each time I have to scan. I don't know who's fault it is and I don't really care. At the end of the day if the scanner doesn't work then sane and Linux (or the Linux distro) are going to be to blame. The inevitable outcome is me switching back to Windows. That outcome sux to say the least.
