Audigy 2 ZX random muting during playb

I'm not sure why, but recently, the sound has been randomly muting on me when I'm playing movies or mp3s. It's not a setting change; the volume settings all remain the same. The sound just suddenly disappears. It is easy to fix; just move the slider of the media player left or right, and the sound comes back immediately. It doesn't seem to depend on the media player or what media it is. The problem also never occurs during games, only during media playback.
I was wondering if anyone might know what the problem might be.

Thanks for the reply.
I'm not sure exactly how to check the driver version, but by going to the Audigy 2 ZX properties in the control panel, it said that the driver version was 5.2..442 with a date of /8/2003.
It has been happening for about the past week, I would guess. It does happen very rarely, but enough that it's annoying. I've run into the problem in both Media Player Classic and foobar2000, but nothing else yet. But as I said before, the problem happens rarely, and I use those 2 media players almost exclusi'vely for movies and mp3s, so I would guess that it's not program-specific.
I'll definitely try checking the surround mixer the next time that happens, and maybe try using Windows Media Player more, to see if I get the problem in that program.

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