Can't run Surround Mix

Yesterday i updated SB Audigy drivers to version 6.0..36 through creative automatic updates and installed the patches for surround mixer, audioHQ and creative recorder.
Everything work fine except for surround mixer which doesn't want start.
I've italian version so the english tranlsation should be similar to this:
"An error occurred during the initialization of one of the mixer modules. Mixer will be closed."
Is there a solution to make Surround Mixer working again, or it is a well known problem?
Thanks

Good afternoon. I see that this thread hasn't got a response, but yesterday I updated drivers for my Soundblaster Audigy Platinum and encountered this same problem.
The surround mixer has stopped working and I get this error message:
"An error has occured while initializing one of the mixer engine. Mixer will now exit."
(The poor grammar is part of the error message, not my own.)
This prohibits me from controlling the volumes of the various inputs to the Audigy, and most importantly, from adjusting the individual input properties in the custom environments.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
Brian

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