What version SBLive? I own the Soundblaster live 5.1 XGamer and I had some issues, but when I went to Windows Update they had certified drivers..and it worked anyhow, but somehow I was missing dsound.dll, I had to use a driver *Cringe* out of Win2k Pro and wham! it worked..

I got sound, and no conflicts..
I later got the offical driver from a buddy with XP...Somehow that driver wasn't installed when I upgraded...then later wiped my drive and started from scratch..

All in all I think I might have to by new hardware in reguards to my older "legacy cards"
Why make new drivers when you can make more money like Symantic's Norton Utilities, who now uses Windows APIs to defrag in speed disk..

If ya can't beat MS sleep with them...

Edit: I never let those stupid MS Compatablity, not digitally signed errors stop me..