Brother PED-Basic USB card writer specs

Hey, so I'm running windows 2000 on a macbook pro and parallels desktop for the mac (3188). I know there's at least one other person on the discussion board who is trying without success so far to use the Brother PED-Basic usb card reader/writer. It reads the sewing/embroidery industry's infuriatingly expensive tiny memory cards. The cards themselves are gigantic by today's standards, but they hold anywhere from 512k or smaller to about 2M. They're a completely custom size and pin configuration, so you can't get around using their hardware. Very annoying from an end-user's perspective. Anyway, I've been hoping to ditch the $20 PC I bought from goodwill back to goodwill with a linux install on it or something if I can get Parallels to see the USB card reader/writer for my embroidery machine.

Here's what USB Prober had to say about this USB device:

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Full Speed device @ 2 (0x1B100000): .............................................   Composite device: "USB-WRITER"
    Device Descriptor 
        Descriptor Version Number:   0x0100
        Device Class:   0   (Composite)
        Device Subclass:   0
        Device Protocol:   0
        Device MaxPacketSize:   8
        Device VendorID/ProductID:   0x04F9/0x2100   (Brother International Corporation)
        Device Version Number:   0x0100
        Number of Configurations:   1
        Manufacturer String:   1 "BROTHER"
        Product String:   2 "USB-WRITER"
        Serial Number String:   3 "E5G111616"
    Configuration Descriptor 
        Length (and contents):   32
            Raw Descriptor (hex)    0000: 09 02 00 20 01 01 00 80  32 09 04 00 00 02 00 00 
            Raw Descriptor (hex)    0010: 00 00 07 05 01 02 10 00  00 07 05 82 02 40 00 00 
            Unknown Descriptor   0020:
        Number of Interfaces:   1
        Configuration Value:   1
        Attributes:   0x80 (bus-powered)
        MaxPower:   100 ma
        Interface #0 - Unknown 
            Alternate Setting   0
            Number of Endpoints   2
            Interface Class:   0   (Unknown)
            Interface Subclass;   0
            Interface Protocol:   0
            Endpoint 0x01 - Bulk Output 
                Address:   0x01  (OUT)
                Attributes:   0x02  (Bulk no synchronization data endpoint)
                Max Packet Size:   16
                Polling Interval:   0 ms
            Endpoint 0x82 - Bulk Input 
                Address:   0x82  (IN)
                Attributes:   0x02  (Bulk no synchronization data endpoint)
                Max Packet Size:   64
                Polling Interval:   0 ms

It's not like I've got any kind of unreasonable ideas that you're intentionally withholding functionality from us. This is an unusual device, and without having one in person, I could understand why you wouldn't be able to get it to work. I hope that USB prober profile is a little more helpful than normal, but.. thanks for your consideration.
-steve