Audigy 2 ZS driver prob

*sigh* Where to start?
A couple of days ago I made the huge mistake of deciding to reformat my hdd's and "start fresh" as my computer had been developing some issues over the past few months. I'll spare you the horrid details of my struggle to get WinXP Home installed.
I get booted up with my fresh install of XP and begin the wonderful task of installing Norton Internet Security, Ad-Aware and then playing the update game for Windows. Once that is all done I decide it's now time to get my hardware drivers up to date. I begin with my Audigy 2ZS Gamer card. In a nutshell what's happening is this: I can install just about every driver package I have (Install CD and downloaded versions) but my sound card just flat won't work. I have zero sound with the exception of my system speaker in the case which only beeps to alert me to errors or during bootup.
When I check the status under Device Manager it shows everything is working perfectly. No conflicts anywhere. I browse through to the actual listing for the sound card itself and the initial screen tells me that my device is working properly. In fact every screen/window I look at tells me that my card is installed and working just fine except for one. In the properties tab (where it shows what device is being used for certain programs such as midi device, mixer, etc.) if I highlight the device under any of the trees and click the properties button I get the following message "Driver is enabled but not functioning properly". Furthermore, when I click on the settings tab in the window that gives me the status I get an error message stating "Cannont load Creative Audigy Audio Processor (WDM) driver. The driver file may be missing. Try installing the driver again, or contact your system administrator".
This is a problem that I have never encountered in my 0+ years of building and maintaining my own systems. I am a total loss of what to do next. I have double, triple and quadruple checked my BIOS settings to ensure that my onboard sound was (and stayed) disabled. I have un-installed and re-installed my card numerous times using 3 different PCI slots. During this Windows never once auto-detected my card. It always attempted to install a Multimedia Sound Device instead of a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 product. To test my card to make sure it wasn't fried I installed it in another computer running WinXP and it auto detected it just fine and began the installation process with no prompting from me at all. I have un-installed and re-installed the drivers from both the install CD and stand alone downloaded drivers using numerous methods (including the ones listed in the "Read this before posting" thread for this forum). An interesting note regarding driver installations. The latest stable (ie Microsoft signed) drivers will not install for me. I get an error message stating "Setup did not detect the set of required components you have. Setup will exit". Yet I have 2 sets of beta drivers that install just fine. Well except for the part where they are enabled but not functioning properly =P.
So now I am stumped. My card worked perfectly in this same exact system just 2 days ago before I decided to reformat. I didn't have any problems installing it when I originaly built the system either. In fact this is the first major problem I've had installing a SB card in any system for quite a few years now. Short of attempting to re-install Windows again (which I highly doubt would work anyways) I am all out of things to try. Anyone have any other suggestions or perhaps even experienced this problem before and might be able to help me out? Oh and before someone suggests it, yes I did keyword search these forums prior to posting and didn't find anything that would help =).
P.S.: It seems that these forum don't want to play nice with me either. Appologies for the horrid formatting of this post. I hope there aren't too many cases of bleeding eyes because of it =).

I have almost the same problem,
I'm going crazy on this, I have a long story of self built computers too...
Audigy 2 ZS "correctly" installed, but drivers details on "mixer", "midi" and all the codecs details are "installed but not working correctly".
I'm going to format and reinstall everything to see if it's due to previous drivers for an "onboard" sound card
O.S.: windows XP SP2
Proc.: P4 3,40 GHz
GBytes RAM DDR2
Sapphire X300 pro
ASUS P5LD2 mobo

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