That is what i hated the most about windows XP any time i have played with it it would try and do everything for you and guess what you wanted to do. I know this is trying to make things easy but i think it makes it harder with what you really want to do hidden away in some nasty wizard.
They fell into the common design trap of trying to make it easy rather than intuitive.
> webcam and my printer don't have drivers for OS X
There are third-party drivers that cover most printers. There are also drivers for some USB webcams out there - what model do you have?