Thanks, I downloaded CH341SER.ZIP, created a folder on the desktop, put CH341SER.zip in that folder, unzipped it and ran the Setup file, it took a moment with nothing then it told me it had successfully installed the driver. Surprise, it works great. It shows up as COM3: on my XP machine. Since I am not very good in non English languages here is the final link. It should be the first file below download. 8/5/2015, lots of luck to all. I also run Mint on this machine and it worked just fine so I knew the hardware was OK.
Great Find,
Thanks Gil