No Sound from Center Spea

Well, I got a few problems with my Creative Li've! 5. Digital (Model SB0220), but for purposes of practicality, I'll focus on the latest, most annoying problem.
I get no in-game sound/ Media Player sound/ itunes sound/ etc. from my center speaker.
That is to say, when I enter the Creative HQ, I test all fi've speakers of my Logitech X-530 5. Surround sound system, and ALL of them report back as working- I hear sound out of all of them.
Background:
I have enabled 5. support from my Creative HQ, I have used the install CD to install the software, although my drivers have failed to properly install, like many people report with these 5. Digital cards. Having said that however, I still get good sound from the remaining four speakers in my system, and they seem to function well for games/movies, but that **bleep** center speaker is annoying me.
I've tried re-installing the drivers I was able to find on www.driverguide.com, and got the same "Unable to detect any Sound Card on your system" message that everyone with my card seems to get, so I tried to manually install the drivers by extracting the file, going to the audio/WinXp_2k folder and applying those drivers to the 'unknown audio controller' in my Device Manager, but again- no dice.
I don't want to have to re-format my computer just to get this to work, and I'd love some feedback as to how to proceed from here.

So I've got a new speaker set now, and tried it out... to my immense disappointment I still don't get anything from the center speaker. Is there something special you have to do to get this thing working? There's always that chance I missed something, or am I just stuck with a defect in my Audigy card?
edit: I have just tried it with the onboard AC97 sound chip, and then the center speaker works :s (why didn't I think of that beforehand)
So is there something special you need to enable with the Audigy card setup or is mine simply defect? 'Cause this isn't really how it should be, buying a sound card for better sound and then noticing the lowly onboard soundchip works far better...Message Edited by 65532 on 2-03-2005 0:09 PMMessage Edited by 65532 on 2-03-2005 0:0 PM

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