Surround Sound giving me aggravating problems HELP!

I have a Creative X-fi Titanium Champion
NOTE: Not working = plays in stereo instead of surround sound like it's supposed to.
Here are a couple great testers for my problem:
This surround sound only works if dolby digital is on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6a-...eature=related
This surround sound only works if dolby digital is off and SPDIF out is selected as the default playback device: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4PlwSKj8A ORhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwmuD...eature=related
With Dolby Digital off, and using the SPDIF out as my default playback device, I get surround sound, with Dolby Digital on, or X-fi Speakers as my default playback device I get stereo audio.
So In order to get surround sound, I have to turn dolby digital off. Unfortunately to get surround sound in games and movies, I have to have dolby digital on.
There must be a way to get normal surround sound without losing dolby digital or vise versa. Someone please help!
I think the problem is that for surround sound to work, the audio must come from the SPDIF out, but dolby digital only outputs to Speakers out. So while dolby digital in itself is surround sound, only dolby digital surround sound will work over Speakers out. Unfortunately I need to use SPDIF out, so does anyone know how to get dolby digital to use SPDIF out instead of speakers out so I can have surround sound + dolby digital acti've?

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