Scanner now works in Foresight as user; but still not perfect

I used the permission changing suggested in this guide to get xsane to see my Epson Perfection 1260 scanner when opened as user.
First, you need to run "sane-find-scanner" (as user is fine). This is what I got:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x046d, product=0x0850) at libusb:005:002
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x011d [EPSON Scanner], chip=LM9832/3) at libusb:003:002

Actually, only the second one's a real scanner.
So, then I ran

chmod a+rw /dev/bus/usb/003/002

given that my scanner is at libusb:003:002
Thereafter, the scanner is found by scanimage -L run as user (before it was only detected as root).
Also, xsane (still have to run from terminal) works just fine.
Apparently, however, I will need to run the chmod command after every reboot or restart of the scanner as I still can't find how to make this change permanent (but I'm still looking).
Perhaps, I could write a small bash script to change the permission AND start xsane which would be nice. I'll do that if I can't get any further by the traditional route.

Scanner use on the desktop

I haven't used my Epson Perfection 1260 scanner for some time but resurected it today and got it to work in Windows XP (where it had worked before). However, after re-installing the drivers off the Epson CD that came with the machine, when I tried to run the scanner, it kept saying that it couldn't find the scanner software.
So, I checked on Google and downloaded the online driver for my scanner and thereafter it seemed to work fine via the Epson Smart Panel.
Then I tried to get it working on Ubuntu.
So, I went to Applications>Graphics>Xsane and this had two "scanners" detected one of which was my Logitech webcam, but the other was the Epson 1260. So this was perfect.
Next, I tried to do the same thing on Foresight 2.0.1 on the desktop. Here no Xsane was installed although it was available in the repos. So I installed it but it didn't show up under Applications.
Instead, I opened it from a terminal. But xsane couldn't detect any scanning devices until I opened it from a terminal as root.
On googling this problem, it seems that it is not uncommon as detailed here.
These commands are useful in diagnosing problems here:

sane-find-scanner
scanimage -L

and it might be worthwhile running both as root if running as user yields a blank.
However, while the link I gave seems to give an easy solution for this problem, unfortunately, there is no /etc/udev/rules.d/*-libsane-rules in Foresight 2.0.1 on my computer so that rules that fix out.
I posted to the Foresight on this here but got no replies up to now.