Itunes + Gaming = choppy, scratchy, icky sound.

I consider myself a proud owner of an ipod. I chose the best I could get imo for my listening pleasure. Up untill the latest itunes version I was pretty satisfied with itunes. I could easily buy new music without having to leave the home. I even bought some music after I upgraded. Now i'm also hooked on one of the best known MMORPGs.... before I had no trouble playing music while gaming. Yet since this last version It seems impossible to do so.
I have a Soundblaster Audigy 2nx, (the usb thing with the 24bit sound). 5.1 surround. Before there was no trouble running my game and itunes together and still be able to listen to both the sounds. Now if I play my music in itunes without the game running, nothing happens. Even better: before I can even have the game running, switch to desktop open itunes play my music but !the moment! i switch to the game. The sounds gets choppy, scratchy, icky. And only the itunes part. The sounds within the game remains unaffected. I've tried all the solutions apple has handed to us users. 16-bit, 24-bit, stereo, 5.1, 44.1khz, 48khz, Lowering the sounds output of windows and raising the sounds output in itunes. ENABLING enhanced sound ( it was off to begin with on my comp), Turning on safe mode within quicktime prefs. All to no avail. Even tried looking for additional plugins which I had none...
So can somebody plz confirm that they have no troubles playing music (newly bought, and bought before) untill they switch to a game (that uses direct sound of course) and the trouble starts there?
I know apple is real handy in saying.... well u shouldn't use that game then.... NO, it worked before, I paid money for the songs I'm trying to play, I paid money for the ipod I have and that is the reason I use itunes. So plz fix it.
So another topic to add to the endless list of problems

I am having the same problem...yet the recorded music on the ipod sounds great. I just cant listen to any of the tunes while recording or just playing the cd. Its weird!
I have reset the Ipod what a job, plus gone in and made some speaker changes etc;, but nothing seems to work, and then some times it will play perfectly.
I have Windows Media, so naturally It opens when I put a cd in, so I have to turn it off on Mute and mute itunes and the it records great.
Help, I would like to listen to music while downloading and working on the computer..So does anyone out there have the same problem and a fix?
Thank YOU

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