Heres an even weirder chapter in the sage of my weird rudders. The other day, once again, my rudders failed to show up in windows. This time it was plugged into my 3rd Hub alone. So I pull out the old keyboard, the one my rudders always work on when I use its USN port, and plug the rudders in. They worked.
Then I shut the puter down, unplugged the keyboard, and plugged the rudder output back into that 3rd Hub. When I started the puter again the rudders showed. So now Im thinking this is a weird software thing and not a hardware issue.