Connecting Creative Megaworks 510D to Nforce - Analogue or digital bes

Hi,
I am awaiting delivery of a set of Creative Megaworks 510D 5.1 speakers, and have a couple of questions for you..
1) What is the best method of connecting them to my K7N420 Pro?.
I have a CNR (AMR?) card as a plan B, but my first preference would be for a digital connection. Actually, the DAC used on the Nforce and it's AMR card is not bad (Analogue Devices 1885 18-bit), but the phillips 24/96 dac in the 510Ds is probably better.
Trouble is that the 510Ds use a 3.5mm stereo jack for digital input rather than the standard phono SP/DIF interface. Anyone know if an adaptor cable can be made up, or has anyone managed to get this working correctly?
Apologies if this has been asked/answered many times before, but If I must go analogue, which ports on the ANR / MB correspond to front l/r, rear l/r, centre and sub?.
2) What would be the optimum control panel settings for these speakers for games, dvd viewing, and music (stereo CD, MP3 etc?). I'm using 1.13
I would think that there is a set of settings which should work ok for most sources, and then 'optimised' settings for different media. I would be grateful for any pointers...
Cheers,
Alex

Hi,
Thanks for the info...
My speakers do not have a DD5.1 decoder for the digital input, so I'm not sure how it will pan out. I cannot find much information on the format of the datastream - I assume that if the control panel settings are configured for 5.1, then then spdif datastream will be DD5.1 encoded, rather than linear PCM.
I am assuming that the spdif datastream contains channel information for the following channels, but am not sure if my speakers will be able to 'understand' it:
FL, centre, FR, RL, RR, Sub (lfe).
the megaworks 510D manual and nvidia APU white papers are a bit vague, and I'm getting lost!. The 510D shows the digital input as a stereo minijack, but suggests that you use a mono RCA - mono minijack converter for non-audigy cards.
Still confused :(
Cheers,
Alex

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