Sound On Entire Computer Gets "Warbled"/Distorted Whenever I Open Audition

Question

Hello. I apologize in advance if I'm posting a topic that's been posted before. I'm new to the forums, and couldn't find a similar topic via the search tool.
Anyway, whenever I open Adobe Audition, the sound on my entire laptop becomes "warbled" or distorted. The sound goes in and out, imagine your headphone jack or an audio cord not being plugged in all the way. But this ONLY happens with Audition. Other audio editing programs work just fine and don't affect the sound. But once I open Audition, the sound gets all wobbly and goes in and out.
I'm running the Audio Hardware as the following:
Device Class: MME
Default Input: Internal Microphone (Conexant SmartAudio HD)
Default Output: Speakers (Conexant SmartAudio HD)
The other preferences that come after don't change anything.
Also: Whenever I switch the Device Class to ASIO, my sound is perfect on my laptop, but then I get no audio from Adobe Audition. That puzzles me as well...
MME was working perfectly for me, however, until a few days ago. I updated my computer's soundcard due to some other sound issues I was having. I think this could possibly be what is messing with Audition....but I needed to update the soundcard.
So those are my issues. Any help or suggestions?

Answer 1

PC, Dell Inspiron is my operating system.
Using Adobe Audition CS5.5
And in the original post, I said than when I select ASIO, no sound comes from Adobe Audition, even though the rest of the sound is perfect. So I used MME which was initially working for me until these sound issues arose.