SB Live! 24-bit External (USB): "Snap, crackle, p

Hi everyone.
I bought SoundBlaster Li've! 24bit External (USB) soundcard for my laptop (HP Omnibook 500) for better sound quality. However, it's only been worse than the internal sound card: whether I'm recording or playing back stuff, I get crackling sounds and especially when recording stuff, the song skips randomly!
I've tried lowering the sound acceleration setting as well as the display card acceleration. No effect. I've also tried disabling other USB devices, I've disabled the internal sound card (from Windows XP).. but nothing that I've done so far has removed these problems. There is nothing wrong with my audio setup (soundcard is connected to a professional mixer that works, so the output devices are not the problem). And I have also tried installing the latest drivers.
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Hi
This seems to be a common problem with this?box if you look at this forum. I have the same problem with my Acer Aspire laptop and this device. Having had nothing but good experiences with?SoundBlaster products in the past, like?you, I am somewhat dissapointed with their new range.
There seems to be problem with both recording and playback via the USB. I have noticed that the there seems to be an intermittant?drop-out problem during recording, which is them made worse by drop-outs every fer seconds?during playback. Seems like a lot of users have dumped the device as incompatible.
I am still looking at possible tweaks on the USB management as I suspect the recording drop out is down to a bus watchdog interrupting the data stream, but I am not very hopeful of finding a cure. The only good news I can offer is that if you burn to CD, and put the CD in another player it seems to be OK except?for?the original recording glitches.
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