Force WZC with Linksys Wireless-G Compact USB network adaptor

I have installed a Linksys usb network adaptor (model no WUSB54GC) on
my desktop and stupidly used their Wireless Network Monitor. This kept
dropping the connection (whereas my laptop situated 2 feet away from
the desktop never, ever drops the connection). The lap top uses the
Windows Zero Config utility.

I have uninstalled the usb device and the software and then loaded the
driver for the device using New Hardware wizard (without the
installation disk, although I did have to use it to find file
rt73.sys). I start and make automatic the WZC service. The device does
work and there is no sign of the Wireless network Monitor, which is
what I wanted to achieve. I can get online easily and all is well.

However, when I right click on the little icon in the sys tray and
click "view available network connections" the WZC utility tells me
some other software is managing the connection. I have deleted the
Linksys utility and my previous Wanadoo utility. I can find no software
that would be managing the connection.

How do I force WZC to manage the connection?
How to I find out what software is manageing it (I guess it's the
rt73.sys file) - can I install the usb device without and connection
management capacility?

All help welcome. All I want is for the WZC service to manage the
connection, automatically and exclusively.

Regards,

Mark