Hi Larry,

Recently I wrote a script for importing a points and my colleague (he has a summer job for our institute) tried this equipment chain to digitize a part of some stuff:
-Notebook with WinXP
-MicroScribe G2X + Notepad
-MoI + script (actually, custom command)

It might help you... it is not a perfect solution, on the other hand it is quite funny for hobyist...
You won't get a point cloud, but only a huge set of individual point objects, polyline or free-form curve, though.

Petr