What soundcard goes with ne Inspire P7800 - want a Live! Drive for recording with it

I just bought the new Inspire P7800 7.1 system and have been using a Soundblaster Live Platinum card since it was the hottest, newest card. Now I see the Audigy series and am wondering if I can take full advantage of this speaker system I have with the current card installed. I can only seem to make the front two, center and woofer work with this old card and my software only gives me options for four speakers. There is a Surround Sound feature but it doesn't seem to work. I have two jacks on the card, one for line out and one for rear. I am assuming I need a newer version of Soundblaster. Can someone give me recommendations on cards?
Hone

Yes, I hear nothing but good things from Glyph drives, but like you said, they are $70-$100 more. I was unaware about the Oxford 924 chip. If Glyph promotes it in a product for recording purposes, then it shouldn't be bad. The studios at my school, Ball State's Music Technology Dept., use both the Glyph drives and the OWC Mercury Elites and have had good relations with both. I guess it's up to you. From what Sweetwater has told me, the Glyph drives are supposed to be more rugged and be able to handle more stress, but they are just Seagate drives in them, so who knows.
Here's a little article about the Glyph drives to help you with your decision making.
http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/glyph/
~trevor

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