Audigy Platnum 2 Live drive probl

Hello I purchased an Audigy platnum 2 from a friend with the li've dri've. Everything is installed, updated drivers from creative's website and I still cannot get the li'vedri've to function properly. Headphones work fine, microphone does not. Neither does firewire port. When I plug into the card on the backside of the PC everything works fine, but I really would like to get the li'vedri've up and running for the convenience. The mic sounds really weak and muffled when I try to record in Audition or soundbooth and just when it is plugged in it has the same muffled light sound. Any help would be appreciated.
BTW system specs
XP SP2
q9300
4 gigs DDR2 066 Ram
geforce 8600

To summarise everything worked ok for a period of time, then, when attempting to use the headphones (which had worked prevoiusly) there was no sound. Further investigation revealed that the remote, mic 2 and aux in 2 (which also worked previously?) also did not work but a red light still shows in optical out. You have tested these using the surround mixer to select the appropriate inputs.
The red light in optical out shows you have power and connectivity to the card also they appear in the mixer ( if I understand your initial post correctly) which shows the card detects the front bay.
This is difficult to comment on as everything seems to be as it should be. Please confirm in detail that my understanding is correct.
PS. it would help if you call things by their correct names.

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