SB Audigy 2 Platiunum ex on Vista - Recording device "Currently Unavailable&qu

Hi, thanks in advance for any help!
I'm having difficulty recording on Windows Vista. Having installed my soundcard recently from a previous computer, I downloaded the relavent Vista Driver: "Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series Vista Driver 2.2.0002" (6 Mar 07). I have not installed the beta version released 02 Jun 08 (perhaps someone will recommend i try that).
Now, I opened up a recording software (Cakewalk Sonar 7) - and followed the instruction for recording. Upon not recieving any level information from a mic plugged into the Audigy "Line-In /Mic" - it recommended I open up Windows Vista "Sound Recorder" and attempt recording from there, which failed with the following pop-up message: "An Audio recording device cannot be found".
It then automatically opened up the "Recording" tab on the?Sound control panel where i could see the recording devices listed: They were listed as follows:
- Line-In /Mic, Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM), Currently unavailable
- Line-In 2, Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM), Currently unavailable
- S/PDIF-In, Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM), Working
- "What U Hear", Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM), Currently unavailable
The "Currently Unavailable" seems to be the crux of the problem - have i done something incorrectly, and how do I make them available if this is where the problem resides? I tried selecting the Line-In , etc, as default with no results from that Vista recording program (When i selected S-PDIF-In, the vista recording program?allowed the record to begin, and when saved, played back nothing but noise).
The sound card is working perfectly normally - I can hear sound, and even get the plugging in jack noise when i plug into the Line-In slot on my Audigy box in addition to being able to speak into my mic and hear myself back through my speakers. I am quite confused! Surely a solution is kicking me in the face...
Many thanks in advance for any help in remedying my current recording crisis!

Copied from the Video forum - (related to video operation under Vista)
I have used the follwoing procedure to install a working configuration of the Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor in a clean install of Vista Ultimate.
() Download from Creative Labs (US) site: http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/ the following files:
(a) Creative Sound Blaster USB Series Windows Vista Driver .00.0060 - USBVS_PCDRV_LB__00_0060.exe (from the Vista section)
(b) VidCap for Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor .00.000 - A2VX_PCVDE_L9__00_000.exe (from the WinXP section)
(2) Use WinZip or WinRAR to open the file (b) and extract the folders \DrvInst and \Vidcap into your Vista Downloads folder.
(3) Connect the Video Editor to the power supply and a video source; connect the USB cable to your PC. Ignore the "Found NEw Hardware" dialog that pops up.
(4) Doubleclick on file (a) to install the Creative Sound Blaster USB Series Windows Vista Driver, and follow prompts as required; accept all defaults. After install is complete, let the PC reboot.
(5) After rebooting, in the "Found New Hardware" dialog that appears, select the options to search for a driver, don't go online to search, browse for a driver and point the search at the \DrvInst folder you extracted in (2) above. The USB video driver will be installed from the \DrvInst\Video\Driver\Win2k.
(6) After the video driver is installed, doubleclick on the Setup.exe file in the \Vidcap folder you extracted in (2) above to install the Vidcap application.
(7) Setup the options in Vidcap, and run a test recording.
Happy capturing under Vista.Message Edited by Dale-CL on 04-8-2007 :3 AM

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