SoundBlaster XFi Titanium Fatal1ty Popping Sounds

Okay...obviously this isn't a new problem... I've seen tons of complaints about it. Anyhow, I've started getting popping sounds randomly, through analog and digital. Is there ANY fix for this? I was thinking it might be my wireless card (which is three slots down from the sound card, and has an external?antennae. Any ideas? I never got this on my XtremeMusic. I have:
Intel Core 2 Duo e8400
Geforce GTX 285
DFI Lanparty DK P35
Wireless N PCI Adaptor
Xfi Titanium Fatalty PCIe
3 Hard dri've/bluray dri've, yadayada yada...
Latest Creative driver
Windows 7 64
4GB DDR2 RAM

Try swapping PCI slots of your Wireless card. If your sound card is PCIX you can only move it to a x, x4 x8 or x6 slot. The wireless card can be moved to any other PCI slot.

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