Bad sound from audio jack

please help - i just got the mini 1000 vivienne tam, which i love, but the audio output from the headphone jack is terrible. it sounds like i'm listening to a cassette in my 1983 boombox. i'm running windows xp. i've seen solutions for those on linux, but nothing helpful for xp. please help! i have a great bose wave radio that's going to poor use as i listen to all music from my notebook.
hp person, random person, anyone, please save me!
(and please explain in very very simple nontechy terms)
thank you!

omg, it worked it worked! thank you so much. i spent an hour online with tech support yesterday and didn't get it fixed. but this worked! may blessings rain down upon your house.

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