Streets & Trips - no USB GPS support help

Help and ideas needed please!

I've got:
Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005 (with the improved GPS support);
Garmin GPSmap 60C (with serial and USB PC cables);
IBM Thinkpad laptop (with no serial port!).

S&T only looks for a connected GPS on serial ports, it won't
recognize anything connected to a USB port. Well, you see the
problem... without a serial port on my laptop, the software and
the GPS can't comunicate.

Any ideas?
Will Microsoft provide an upgrade?
Any recommendations on a Serial/USB converter? (I'm leery of the
drivers that wopuld need to be installed.... messing other things
up).

BTW, nowhere on the S&T packaging is this restriction made clear.

Thanks!

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