Sound Blaster X-Fi skips a beat in windows media player! Help

I'm going crazy... My media player occasionally skips a beat when I listen to music, or even when I watch movies... though it's rarely a beat in a movie.
I don't know what to do, no one I've asked have any idea why this happens. I've formatted my computer since I got the card, so it's not a virus, not spyware etc. I've also had problems with missing sound in F.E.A.R when playing with EAX effects etc.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have time to run every possible cause in the FAQ, since it's pretty rare that it skips a beat, and it would simply take ages.
I have tried with reduced or removed hardware acceleration, changed all possible settings in media player etc, no ideas left.
So I hope someone has experienced the same, and has some kind of solution.
Computer:
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz/800FSB
ASUS P4P800 (Socket 478)
GeForce 7600 GS
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum (The sinner)
80GB Maxtor Harddisk (S-ATA 50)
Running at stock speed.

I have the exact same problem, I think, though I notice it most with videos. I also have a Sound Blaster X-Fi (XtremeGamer) but the same issue happens with my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
By "skip a beat", you mean that the playback skips forward, right? By maybe half a second or so, or a whole second? If so, then yes, I have this problem.
I have an idea for you. You have an Intel Pentium 4. I've isolated this problem with my dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 to be related to the dynamic switching of threads over to CPU, or the second core. Whenever a video or music is playing on this core, the problem may happen. But if I limit it to CPU0, the problem goes away.
It should be much easier to solve this problem for you. You don't have a true dual-core or dual-CPU system, but it should be recognized as one as a result of the Intel Pentium 4's HyperThreading. So what I suggest to you is to disable hyperthreading. You can do this in the BIOS, and can find more information about how to do it on Google probably. Please try this - I'm VERY interested in knowing if it works for you. Let me know if it does or doesn't or if you need any additional help.

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