The Android USB drivers page for Windows is very misleading, IMHO. He does not mention that it does not work on all Android devices. It turns out that for some devices you need to go to the manufacturer’s website for USB drivers, DO NOT use the generic USB driver for Android.
For example, in my case, the generic Android USB driver will not work for my Sony Ericsson X10a. I forgot the exact error message, but the Windows device manager did not recognize the driver software as valid for the device. But after I downloaded the X10a USB driver from the Sony Ericsson developer website, the Windows device manager was pleased with this. Then I was able to install Android applications on the device and debug through Eclipse / DDMS.
By the way, I also use 64-bit Windows 7 (which is not the real source of the problem).
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