Computer Freezes with X

I got my X-Fi Xtrememusic a few days ago. I installed it and it worked wonderfully. Today, my computer started freezing. I would play Battlefield 2 for about 20 minutes and it seemed fine, then all of a sudden it would just freeze and the sound would stop working. It would totally lock up and I would have to reboot. That's one problem. The other is when I reboot it, there's no sound! The only way to get sound again is to reinstall it. I never had any of these problems with the motherboard supplied soundcard. Please help!

BF2 is also my favorite game, and COD2. I've had the same exact problems with my Audigy 2 ZS and the support department hasn't been very helpfull, and nobody on the forums knows whats going on.
I've tried everything, different drivers and stuff. For me, music is great n' all but when I start COD 2, I can play for about 5-20 seconds then a high pitched screeching sound starts and my PC locks up and I have to reboot. I've tried old drivers, beta drivers, everything. I've tried a clean-sweep twice, and I think I'm going to try the solution with deleting a couple win32 files someone suggested. I'll tell you if it works though.

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