Cable question. Hook-up Audigy2

Good day,?I have recently got the above card and want to install it to my Denon 3802 reciever. I have a full 7. theatre hooked up. I have been doing some research and am a little confused on which avenue to go. If I buy the sound blaster home theatre cables (mini-RCA 3 channel), will I be loosing any quality in sound or performance than using the digital out?If I use the digitial out, I have read that it simply sends a compressed stream to the reciever. Does it send the stream in full 7.
When I configure my settings in XP, does it matter what the speaker configuration is like if I choose a digitial output. I would really like to just set it up with digital, but I dont like the mini to rca plug to coax option. I was hoping for a Toslink type option but I already tried that and it didnt work. Also, I dont mind going with the mini-rca cables, but they want 40 dollars to ship to canada and?the item is only 5 dollars. argh. Thanks in advance. Nate?

Durendal,?thx for the reply. So, now I have a second question that you might be able to help with. If I download a Divx or Xvid movie I would imagine that it has been encoded in?DD or DTS. Sometimes it will say ie:The.Bourne.Supremacy.2004.DVDRip.AC3.Xvi... will that signal be passed through via digital coax to my reciever to be decoded? And/Or does the Audigy card know enough with those?audio types to decode and send to the proper speakers with the 3.5mm. Prior to getting this card, I had an onboard optical out that I had hooked up to the reciever. The most I ever got out of that was stereo. The reciever then had to use ProLogic 2 to work its magic. I have yet to get anything downloaded to play it audio how it should be played ie: a DVD audio signal in DD or DTS. Thx again.

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