Headphone Prob

I just recently purchased an Audigy 2ZS Gamer Edition package and have it hooked up and running in my PC. But I'm having trouble hooking up the front headphone jack on my case to the sound card. I assume it will connect to some of the pins for the Platinum dri've but I don't know which pins do what. Any ideas on how I can get my headphones working short of switching out the speaker cable everytime I want to hook 'em up?

Not really.
The card is not meant to connect to "headphone"jacks/sockets on computer cases.
So called headphone jacks on cases were meant to connect to onboard(motherboard)audio.

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    I will take some pictures this weekend if it doesnt stop working.
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