If you are ever looking for a PC gamepad...

If you ever need a PC gamepad for gaming goodness, I suggest you try out a wired 360 controller. Aside from the plethora of buttons and joysticks (well ok, 8 buttons, 6 axes, and a d-pad), it has worked better than the other gamepads I have tried. Note you need to get the wired gamepad and not a wireless one, since the wireless gamepad cannot talk to a PC. Setup is extraordinarily painless too, since if you tell Windows XP to search on the internet for drivers, it finds it immediately. No special software or CDs to keep up with.