Audigy Plat PCI Firewire port is destroying devic

I recently installed a Audigy Plat card on my PC (did not hook up the 5 /4 bay yet) and install all of the dri'ves via Creative's Autoupdate feature on this website. Once I was able to test the sound, mic, line in and all working successfully... I decided to hook up my digital camcorder. The device was not detected... which I thought was odd, however it gets worse. It now does not work in ANY PC!!!. It flashes DVIN. I then thought to try a friends camcorder, which worked perfectly right before he came to try it on this card and now his does not work either. So finally I tried to connect my ipod via the firewire and it completely locked up the IPOD.
Little background on the PC. Just built it(have built many pc's so this was nothing new, and used the Audigy in many of them). It has a p4 3.0ghz fsb800mhz chip and a 400 watt PS. It is running XP Service Pack 2.
I am in IT so you can throw whatever tips you may have at me. I have never seen this happen before and I just can't seem to figure out what is causing these devides to malfunction due to the card. Please let me know if there is a driver or anything that can fix this issue.
Thank you in advance.

Sir,
Are you positi've that your USB and Firewire Headers are plugged into the proper places on the card... The only thing I know of that would cause the problem your having is generally trying to plug a usb device into a port that has the other end plugged into a firewire port on the board...and vice versa.
The only other possiblities I can think of is a short in either the port or a bad cable, besides the fact the card may just be functioning improperly and it needs to be replaced.
I do know that the voltages used for USB and FireWire are different for each, and trying to plug a usb device into a firewire port and vice versa can either burn up the device or burn up your board or both.
Hope this hel
ps.
...good luck.

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