In the interest of starting some marginally-related-to-wallpaper conversation, I was wondering what experience you ladies and gentlemen have had with scanners. Mine has decided to go ahead and die, (producing random stripes of color), and I'm interested in what types of equipment you have experience with.

I'm mostly interested in the software/drivers various companies supply. The Umax that died had pretty nice acquisition software, such that you could easily switch to advanced mode and control scan options such as resolution and color depth. Contrast that with an HP that I've used at work, which is infuriating in it's simplicity. I despise the software taking control from me and not telling me what it's doing. I can never tell if it's taking the scan at 600dpi like I want, or at the 150 it defaults to, interpolating, and saying it's 600.

So I guess, after all that, the question is, anyone know of a good scanner whose software allows you to actually control it and use it's ability to scan at a decent resolution? I'm not talking software bundle, I much prefer Photoshop, but the Twain interface to save to file or import to ps. Or maybe someone knows of a really good generic interface?
Thanks for any opinions.