Oh, let's just bash Creative a bit more, shall we? They have yet to release drivers for the Live! series that are trouble free and really deliver all the functionality of their drivers for Win9x and even 2000. Took 'em a disgustingly long time even to release a crappy version of Liveware for XP. And how about the months and months when you had to install software (which didn't work) off the CD and then download and install something like a 20 MB patch to get it to work!

Seems to me this is yet another example of a vendor intentionally crippling the functionality of an older product to move you upscale. Other than the aforementioned odious patch, I have always found the Audigy and above to work well with XP. 'Course a generic CMI card or, better yet a Hercules Fortissimo III deliver better bang for the buck.