Joystick issue in FS2002

I'm having a bit of an issue between FS2002 and my Logitech Wingman Digital 3D joystick (non force feedback). FS2002 will not detect my joystick at all when it loads up. In order to make it work, I gotta go to the Game Controllers applet on the Control Panel (it says its ok) and somehow this makes it show up in FS2002, then it works flawlessly. FS2002 always used to detect it before, but during the last few weeks, its not detecting. I haven't made any changes to FS2002 since then, other than a few planes. I even tried a full reinstall of FS2002 and it still dont detect. Any other games (They happen to be Microsoft Games too) detect my joystick, but FS2002 is a exception, and I dont know why. It COULD be my MS Sidewinder Gamepad, but i'm not sure about that.Any suggestions?