Creative Fatality HS-1000 USB sound distortion issue.

I've been having this issue off and on since I got this headset roughly 2 days ago. When I restart my computer the sound is completely corrupted when i get back into windows. It fixed itself when i installed the latest driver and firmware but is once again back after i shut my computer off for the night.
What happens is every sound in windows, music, logon and off, in games and such sound like a distorted helicopter taking off. Absolutely no normal sound comes through except for the annoying distorted helicopter noise. I can't for the life of me figure out the issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. My operating system is Windows XP pro sp3.

Never mind, my problem is fixed. (turns out that the racing wheel causes problems for the headset if the wheel is plugged into any other port except the one built into the MB, which is to say usb ports that are connected to the MB via cable to the usb headers. The headset also didn't like sharing those ports with the wheel either)

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