X-Fi surround sound speaker assignment issue in VI

OK, here's my system:Intel Core 2 duo X6800, BFG 680i mobo, 2gb Corsair PC936, 8800GTX SLI, Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality FPS, Vista Ultimate, Logitech Z5500 So, due to the new vid cards, I decided to upgrade to Vista Ultimate for DX0 capability. Creative sent me the Vista installation disk and I installed. Here's the problem: The speaker assignments are all screwed up: The front left sound is coming out of the center channel, the center channel is coming our of the front left speaker, the front right is coming out of the subwoofer and the subwoofer is coming out of the front right. Oddly, the rears seem just fine. I ran the Logitech sound test on the z5500's and sound generates properly per that test. So, now that my PC sound is all screwed up, what the hell is the problem This sound card worked fine last week, when it was running in XP. Any ideas Any advice Please help!!

I need the same information. Presently I am downloading a 52 Mb driver download which i didn't need a couple of weeks ago.
Vista Home premium with all Microshaft updates in place
Creative SB X-Fi soundcard
Intel Duo 6850 w/ 680i chipset 7. surroundsound sound
P5N32-E SLI ready MoBo
nVidia 8800 GTS 320 Mb V-card
Hitachi 320 MB Hard dri've s-ata with WIN XP PRO
Hitachi 320 MB Har dDRi've s-ata with Vista Home Premium
These are not dual-booted...S-ata Raid
024 X 4 Corsair 800 PC 6400 extreme ddr2 ram
Creative Inspiron 7800 7. surround sound speakers which are silent
Vista device manager shows Creative SB X-Fi is functioning properly with driver s functioning properly but I can't sny music out of this system nor can I get ant MS sound signals either.
Microsoft says go to creative for drivers
people who did custom build say go to Creative
download drivers..nothing works
totally pissed
ranger72...3,700 us dollar system..nobody wants to ante up with informational answers to solve problems

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