Audigy2 SB1394 hangs while load

I have had this product for a couple years. Always worked great! All of a sudden when my computer starts up, it sounds like it half-loads & the Creative logo freezes on the screen. I have downloaded drivers EAX4DRV and SBA2_PCW, uninstalled SB per your instructions, reinstalled, and the result is the same with the logo freeze. What's left to do?

For the code you show you do not identify the xml file to be loaded, which based on that code should be in the req variable...
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("yourfile.xml");

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