X-Fi ExtremeGamer: NO SOUND Devices in XP Pro, but ASIO Programs Have Sou

When I goto: Control Panel>Sounds and Audio Devices and click the "Audio" and "Voice" Tabs, ALL devices are grayed out.
However when I click the "Hardware" Tab, and click on the X-Fi sound card, it says; "The Device is working Properly.".
All of the drivers are installed.
I went through a few issues of cracking and popping, then during boot-up when windows tried to play the boot-up sounds, the computer would crash and freeze.
I had to delete a DLL that my dumb ass did not write down, do to the fact I thought it was a virus and not a sound driver or sound device dll.
However after the dll was removed in dos, windows xp pro booted perfectly fine, but there was no mapped sound. All devices are grayed out, but the "Hardware" tab say the device is working properly.
The sound-card works in WaveLab and Nuendo with the ASIO drivers, just not in normal windows programs, or Windows XP itself.
I have been looking for solutions everywhere and cannot find any.
I am NOT willing to just reformat and reinstall.
I need to keep all of my data.
Please try to help me find the answer to this problem.
Maybe I need to find something that will reinstall the Windows XP basic sound services.
All I know is, if I find the answer, it will help MANY people that have the same problem.
Thanks for your time.

Try to uninstall the whole Creative (the software and drivers) and then reinstall it again. This could be a problem because the XP software won't work on Vista and they may be conflicting.

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