1. The tip: don't repeat the tip which, even apperently, does not work in the prev step. You are not on the job nor I'm a stupid customer who cannot understand that you don't provide support for win 2003 server. Btw, when we talk about CREΛTIVE, I'm SB Live! user and use kX drivers, which I recommend to the most of you. Very powerful, neat and low-level integrated controls. The only thing which suck are SoundFonts controls but that's just forcing VST, imo.

2. Ehm, Mike, have you some antivirus thing on the mech? I.E. Kaspersky AVP? Thing can be very annoying if you don't spend about one hour to arse it to don't do the things you don't like.

I use AVG Antivirus. Free and decent. Not awesome, but decent. I don't know anythin gabout kX drivers for creative. Care to toss some linkage?

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1

But careful! I haven't read what they wrote about the product but from personal xp know that it is best to don't have any driver (for your SB) installed before you do this. As well, I know of few issues when drivers refused to recognize the SB Live! as a compatibile device. Dunno why. Oh, yes - that were SB Lives modyfied to be some muts of Live and Audigy.

looks neat. I may give it a shot sometime. Thanks for the linkage.