Getting around invalidation of Storage Card file handles upon Suspend/Resume?

[joewlarson]

We've been wrestling the infamous PPC 2003 issue where if the device is suspended for too long, the file handles for Storage Card files/directories become invalid. The software in the middle that we are using cannot be changed to reopen the file handles which is Microsoft's suggested workaround. I've also tried setting the registry key HKey Local Machine/System/StorageManager/PNPUnloadDelay to 4096 and 99999999. This helps but doesn't fully solve the issue.

I have to think someone out there can find a creative way to get around this. Does anyone know of some clever tweak, api, program, setting, whatever, that can fully stop this?

I realize that Microsoft's intent is to prevent the scenario that the user has popped in a different card while suspended. But in this case (and I'd guess most other cases) the user will NEVER DO THIS, so this whole idea is nonsense. Why can't they invalidate the file handles on detecting that the card is removed? That seems like something that should be possible. arg...