Ah, looks like joy2key (or similar) is the answer to my issue after all. Just though I'd post back here in case it helps any one that later views this.
Hi Warped Polygon (and anyone that might be able to help), thanks for your setup guides they've been great and saved me so much time.
I'm having a little trouble with this model 2 setup though, I can't get House of the Dead to use the Xbox 360 controller analogue stick for moving the cursor though. I've set "use raw input" to 0 so I can get to the settings. In the settings the Xbox controller is recognised for assigning directions and buttons, but when I play the game the mouse is always used and the analogue sticks don't do anything.
Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong? (the analogue stick works fine in the model 2 racing games by the way).