I have a related problem:
I added an event receiver to the feature deploying the list instance, but when I try to access the list in the FeatureActivated event, the lists (Lists/scanners) doesn't exists yet. Is this correct?
Does this mean you need to create the whole list by code?
This could solve the duplicates: http://jeremysublett.com/archive/2008/12/28/re-provisioning-data-in-a-sharepoint-list.aspx