Audigy 2 ZS - Vista not recognizing card

I'm hoping someone out there can clear this up for me & I apologize if there's another similar post out there (though I couldn't track it down). I just installed Windows Vista within the past 24 hours. Overall, no major issues, EXCEPT for what seems to be compatibility issues with my Soundblaster Audigy ZS2 card. I installed the latest driver from the Creative support page & that hasn't seemed to work. From the control panel, I tried to go into the soundcard settings & it (the SB Audigy card) isn't even recognized. According to the Creative diagnostics software, it suggests I should pull the soundcard out & re-install it. I haven't tried that yet & since I'm not a computer guru (and the fact I didn't want to put in the time & effort to do this - I CAN do that much!), I was hoping someone that might have had a similar issue can shed some light on what they did to get this resolved. By the way, I am using Dell surround sound (5.) speakers through standard audio jacks (i.e., standard headphone-type jacks) plugged into the back of the PC. Is it a software compatibility issue? Hardware issue? Or will the simple task of "re-installing the card" do the trick (despite my lack of PC knowledge, somehow it doesn't seem like this would help much, since there weren't any issues I?experienced before,?but what do I know....
!). My guess from reading various posts on the forum is it's a case of Creative not developing a driver to support Vista. But if anyone could clear this up, that would be awesome. Thanks in advance for your help!!
JasonMessage Edited by jokersnaces on 04-05-20072:24 PM

I should notate one important item.... The sound (speakers/card/etc) was working fine with Windows XP Media before the installation of Vista......
Jason

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I am Swiss, please excuse my ugly english ;-)
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