The downside to system updates
So after doing a bit of research i discovered that in fact, those brand new Zio! drivers I downloaded last week do not work with OS X 10.1.2.

I wish I had known this before I had gone and upgraded all the systems I use. I figure it is because it looks like apple upgraded their USB support with this rev, but it still annoys the crap out of me. I'm going to have to try and install drivers in classic and download some pictures there.