Cannot play music in media center 2004 on Satellite P15-S470

Hello,
Last weekend, I upgraded Windows XP Media Center SP1 to SP2 (since MS no longer supports it) on my father's Toshiba Satellite P15-S470 notebook/laptop. I found tonight that his Media Center 2004 refuses to play audio CD due to an audio error: "To play music in media center, install Windows Media Player 9 or repair."
After a long research on the Internet (e.g., newsgroups and forums), I found out this a known issue ever since SP2's release in 2004. It used to work before SP2 and other music players (e.g., Windows Media Player (WMP) v10 and iTunes v6.x) have no problems. I tried using the MCE 2004 registry fixes provided by both Toshiba and HP (just for kicks) and rebooting, but they did not help.
Is there anything else to try beside clean installing the OS with its SP2 and softwares? I was going to upgrade WMP to v11, but I found out that it doesn't work in MCE 2004. :(
Thank you in advance. :)

Hi
Do you have this sound problem just when you use WMC for listening music CDs or also using other players?
Is there any problem shown in device manager (sound card)?

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