ITunes 7 Overrides Speakers

I noticed a few other people were having trouble with the sound coming out of iTunes 7. I have a Sound Blaster Live! card with 4 speakers connected to it. In games, WinAmp or pretty much anything that plays sound it will come out of all four speakers. Diagnostics in the Creative utility work fine, and the font-to-back/L-R equilizer will isolate any of my four speakers. But somehow iTunes 7 has bypassed the portion of the Creative equilizer that sends sound to all four speakers. I can adjust any of the volume controls, but I can only get sound out of the front speakers, nothing out of the back. Can anyone make iTunes submit to WINDOWS?!?!
Dell Windows XP Pro 700mHz; 384mb Ram

It works fine on my laptop, but thats got a newer
soundcard in it, and only 2 speakers. I'm just
running system restore (going back to older version
of iTunes on my desktop), and am going to recreate my
iTunes library, it was time for a clearout anyway.
I really do hope Apple to acknowledge this fault and
do something about it
I contacted Apple tech support about it and the tech that I spoke to said that he hasn't heard about this issue before. I told him that there are several threads that have users experiencing this same issue. He was able to find the thread and said he is researching the issue. He's supposed to get back to me in a couple of days and I'll let you guys know what the outcome is.
BTW, my soundcard is the built-in nForce2 MCP audio.

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