No 5.1 audio in Vista on Audigy 2

Installed the latest drivers (dated July 8th, 2008) on Vista Business 32-bit (card is Audigy 2 ZS). Used Creative Audio Console to change to 5. (I have Logitech Z-5500 ). When I do the test all speakers work EXCEPT the center channel. Tried to play a movie (and a game too - Crysis) and the center channel is indeed missing in action. What gives?

You'll probably not like my response, but honestly those speakers sound MUCH better through an Optical or Coax signal.
The main benefit of using something like an X-Fi Platinum/Elite (to me at least) is that you gain the digital connections allowing you to use an external decoder (which is on the Z-5500) to decode the signal. Unfortunately, the Audigy 2 ZS cannot do this.
As far as getting the analog channels to work correctly on those speakers, I remember having trouble with mine, and I think that's why I went the digital route initially (since it can pass a raw signal to an external decoder).
Perhaps someone else will have a suggestion, but I could not get it to work basically.

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