ALchemy and advanced EAX effects on Vis

After upgrading to Vista, I thought little about the omission of DirectSound until I started playing World of Warcraft again last night. EAX effects are gone!
So after spending a few hours reading up on solutions, I stumbled across Creative ALchemy, which promised a solution. I've installed it and converted the .dll's correctly, but nothing has changed! The advanced reverb effects that previously made World of Warcraft so enjoyable are still gone, and the sound is still thoroughly "flat".
I'm no sound expert and it's certainly possible that basic DirectSound effects were added through OpenAL, but I do know that the advanced EAX effects are gone.
Anyone have a solution? Is this a planned feature in a future release, or does it sound like the problem may be with World of Warcraft, or something with my own driver installation? Thanks in advance,
~Sangye Ince-Johannsen

Alright, here's what my log said:
Logging Time : 5/5/2007 at 5:06:34
Loaded ini file from D:\Games\World of Warcraft
NOTE : If you have a SB X-Fi card, please use the Creative Audio Console application to enable 'Game Mode'.
Failed to initialize OpenAL
DirectSoundEnumerateA : Failed to load and initialize ct_oal.dll, falling back to dsound.dll
NOTE : If you have a SB X-Fi card, please use the Creative Audio Console application to enable 'Game Mode'.
Failed to initialize OpenAL
DirectSoundCreate8 : Failed to load and initialize ct_oal.dll, falling back to dsound.dll
So, I switched to Game Mode, and now my game sound has completely stopped working. The new log, however, is clean:
Logging Time : 5/5/2007 at 6:0:33
Loaded ini file from D:\Games\World of Warcraft
Thanks for the response. Any idea what the problem may be in light of these logs?
Thanks again,
~Sangye Ince-Johannsen

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