Dear Dr Watson,

   This is the link to the driver itself:
once I downloaded the Zip file, i opened the device manager and instead of allowing windows to search for a driver i clicked browse and found the downloaded zip folder in the computer. Thank you for your assistance
                                                                 Michekaard (Mich) Lafontant
 
http://www.metawatch.org/assets/images/developers/TI%20LaunchPad%20USB%20Driver.zip