Audigy 2 ZS won't play Sound from Front speakers, just Rear

;? ? I recently installed Windows 7, and have been having trouble with my speakers playing correctly. Intially, the first time I installed the 07/3/09 drivers from Creative, I could only play music/test sounds out of my front 2 speakers. I unistalled the drivers, and re-installed the Beta drivers instead, and I also uninstalled the Realtek drivers as I heard that they can cause problems.
?? So now I have the Beta installed, and Realtek not installed - and now music/test sounds ONLY play out of the rear/center speakers, and NOT my front 2. In addition, the rear/center speakers are flakey - sometimes it plays, sometimes it doesnt.
Help! Anyone have a solution or a step in the right direction?
Edit: If its worth mentioning, under the Creative Audio Console -> CMSS 3D, before Windows 7 I had to option to mix CMSS 3D. Now the only 2 options are Off and CMSS. No CMSS 3d.

? Yeah, actually I found that a handful of the environmental changes work. For example, "small room" does work for me. However, it still is not very good. The environment effects for me make it very difficult to hear.
Sigh - this is the only driver for me that does not work correctly under Windows 7 64bit.
Hopefully there will be a new driver soon.

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