Dell says my FourPoint Surround Sound FPS 1000 is outdated and needs to be tossed?

I have a set of five including woofer. They work fine on my old system, XP. Only two (whichever two are plugged into the green port) work on my new Dell, Vista. I have spent many hours on the phone with Dell only to finally be told that I needed to purchase Dell speakers. What I don't understand though is why when I open the control panel, click on configure speakers, I can hear all of them like I should? Then, as soon as I insert a dvd/audio cd, it returns to just the two plugged into the green port. It does not matter which two are plugged into the green port, I can plug in the black into the green port and will only have sound from those two. I have a black port and a green port on my tower for speakers. My speakers have a green male and a black male. When I plug them in they way they should be, I have sound from both although the sound coming from the black is hissing only. I have had these since 2002. Dell tells me they are outdated and I need to toss them and buy their new ones...
Message Edited by brownryanh on 10-14-2008 10:32 PM

I think the problem is that the Adobe file DESCRIPTION for the file you just downloaded is 16.0r0, but the actual file is the .296 version. (I think the .235 version is also vulnerable. I downloaded today and got the .296 version.)
we need Adobe to fix the file description. You can verify this by putting in the browser "about:plugins".
If you have the same issue I'm seeing you will see:
File: NPSWF32_16_0_0_296.dll
Path: C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_16_0_0_296.dll
Version: 16.0.0.296
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Shockwave Flash 16.0 r0
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