Ok , Iam just relating my experiance here .....
On two seperate systems both with XP Pro x64 , and complete with all updates ....
1. generic "Athero wifi " nic driver = not MS signed
The Athero's driver is used on two Netgear 311T nic's as Netgear does not support x64 in anyway .
2 . Brothers MFC-5840CN-LAN printer driver = not MS signed .
The brother's AIO printer driver is for x64 , but again as stated is not MS signed .
3. Samsung 2010 laser printer = , x64 driver = not MS signed .
However , on the Samsung printer as of yesterday (8/12/06) the driver is now signed ; but before that the driver was MS unsigned and was used for the last 6 months with no problems .
Current status on both systems , very stable and no bsod ever .
Maybe Iam mis-understanding something here , but again Iam just relating my past and current experiance with x64 and drivers (signed or un-signed )