Microphone level adjusting itself (to zero) while skyp

hi folks,
I got an issue. When i start using the microphone via Skype, the microphone level mysteriously starts adjusting itself to zero. When I open the sound properties and the window where the microphone sound level is at, i can see the slider going down after having skyped a few seconds. The only way to overcome this problem at the moment is to 'grab' the slider (with pressed mouse button) and to adjust the volume level all the time manually while skyping. That's totally hillarious. How can i fix that?
I got all other mics disabled and an Audigy 2 ZS with the newest drivers, Vista 32 bit clean install, a Sennheiser Headset.
Please help!
Greetings,
F.

Skype reduces vollume automaticall if its going to loud. And then Skype resets the position of this slider to this value as long Skype is running. Its a **bleep** crap thing of skype, not of your soundcard. And PS: Dont use skype. U dont know what it does with your system. The only thing, what is known: it uses your system as a peer to peer proxy. Sounds not that cool.

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