Tuner problems since digital conversion

I have a ZD8000 laptop with Window XP Media Center 2005 and an external HP dual tuner. Since the over the air conversion to digital in June I have been unable to tune to any single digit channel 1,2,3...9. All other channels work fine. I have Comcast Digital (Flint Michigan) with individual set top boxes for both tuners and didn't expect the conversion to impact me. Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried reconfiguring Media Center and reloading the HP tuner drivers with no success. I really don't want to invest in any additional hardware. Any ideas?

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