Creative drivers give continuous static, freeze my system when sound plays

I've recently reinstalled Windows 7. Completely wiped my system partition and installed Windows 7 there from scratch. I am now having huge problems with audio.
First thing I would like to mention is that I had none of these problems on my previous installation. Audio worked perfectly, no problems with my sound card (except for no Stereo Mix).
Well, first thing I notice is audio doesn't work. Drivers are, of course, not present. So I install my trusty Daniel_k drivers for my Audigy SE using the setup.exe. First thing I notice - static. Not hardware related, because when the drivers weren't there I got complete silence. Next thing I notice is that as soon as I restart my computer, it locks up. Explorer.exe is dead (can't drag selection boxes on desktop, taskbar is not responding). The mouse then stops moving and I hear a continuous loop of the last half-second of audio that was played. Have to hard-reboot the PC.
I've isolated this issue to the Creative drivers. I uninstalled all the Creative programs (audio control panel, all that junk). System was a bit more stable, could drag selection boxes etc. now. But the static was still there. Went to the playback options and got to a button that said something like "only digital output". Checked it - static was gone. "Great", I thought. Played some music in foobar2000 - nothing. unchecked the box - music blasts loudly for one second and the whole PC freezes again with the infinite loop. After some more testing, it seems that when ANY sound plays, it freezes my system. Music, YouTube, even clicking "Test" in Playback Devices.
I've reformatted and reinstalled Windows 7 a few times to no avail. Problem is still present on each install. This is all after installing all the Windows 7 updates (SP is integrated into the OS), but I doubt this makes any difference.
The drivers from Windows Update have the same problem, as do the official Creative drivers from the site (creative.com). PAX drivers are broken too.
I've also tried ignoring the setup.exe and just installing the drivers themselves through Device Manager. Didn't help. Also disabled all the other audio devices and moved the soundcard to a different PCI slot. Also nothing.
At the moment I am connected to my onboard audio, no issues. This is not a solution for me, though, as I want to use my sound card, because sound quality on it is VASTLY superior. Anyone know something that might help? The most surprising thing is that the reformats didn't work.
My specs:

Sorry I am afraid I do not have any more suggestions. You might want to write to Customer Support for further assistance.

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