Yeah, that's REALLY old now. Maybe all your ports are USB 3, and the device can't cope? I'm not sure.
It's a moot point anyway, because your new screen is very likely LED, and the old X-Rite devices don't work well for LED screens, we're told.
Then why the heck are you asking how to convert to black-and-white??? Did you even read the class?
The Layers & Masks one, for learning about the different layer types.
No.
Bringing out the extra texture would be equivalently done in Photoshop with a USM or High Pass layer, I assume. A pixel layer. And as such, you might as well just use the NIK filter, since the effect on the workflow is the same - it would be a pixel layer either way.