Creative and Vista supp

Recently I upgraded (clean install actually) to Windows Vista.
I have a Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic, which I bought about an year ago. I have Creative Inspire T7700 speakers hooked up to the X-Fi.
I'm really frustrated with the Vista support. I should have never upgraded if I knew there is such a lack of support.
Of course I installed the latest drivers, I installed ALCHEMY, Mediasource and etc.
What really disappointed me is that I made a serious downgrade instead of a proper upgrade once I tried adjusting my X-Fi. All my favorite functions were gone:
1. The Volume Panel icon in the tray is gone.
2. The new Volume Panel is extremely slow.
3. The THX Console is not working. (what is the point of having a THX logo on the volume panel if you can't actually calibrate your speakers !) e.g. Clicking on the rear right speaker in the THX console activates the front right speaker (in the volume panel it works correctly). Calibration doesn't work at all. The only thing that works in the console is the Bass Management.
4. The setting for adjusting DD and DTS output to 7. speakers is now gone.
5. There is NO DTS Neo plugin for creative MediaSource.
6. The nice DOLBY Digital / DTS logo that used to appear on the lower right corner when playing such content is gone.
7. Applying EAX effects requires to restart all the applications currently using the sound card (Otherwise sound just disappears)
8. No DVD-Audio. I have only album, though this really angers me.
and many others... such as emulation of SPDIF out and etc.. and not to mention all the applications such as Vienna SoundFont Studio, the Karaoke Player... all gone.
When is Creative going to release proper drivers and applications for Vista I mean whats the point in having an $50 X-Fi card when you can do all the things with an ordinary $0 7. sound card It has been more than an year now since Microsoft released Vista. People will start upgrading to Vista, and yes, customers won't be pleased with the so-called "upgrade".
And yes, I have the latest drivers, I have the latest software from Creative, Windows is configured to use 7. Speakers. It was all working fine under XP.
This is NOT the sound card I bought.

http://forums.creative.com/showthread.php?t=2998

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