Audigy ZS MCE 2005 spdif passthrough to deco

Hi, I've read every post I can find with anything to do with spdif passthrough and I'm not getting anywhere.
My setup:
IBM Thinkcentre PC with XP MCE 2005
Audigy ZS
Denon AVR-906 DD/DTS capable decoder
Power DVD
The audigy is connected by a 3.5m to mono rca cable to the Denon's coax digital in.
The Decoder tab in Audio Console is set to SPDIF Passthrough.
Media Center and Power DVD are both set to SPDIF.
I understand that I will only get DTS and DD from a source which has it, the DVDs I am testing with have.
My Denon decoder does detect a digital signal, but not DD or DTS. It works fine with other sources, so I believe that the DD/DTS signal is not being passed to the decoder. The result is the same with Media Center and PowerDVD.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.

Embarassed to say it was a setting on my decoder... Oh well. At least it works now

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