X-Fi XtremeMusic drivers blue-screening me nigh

I am at a loss on what to do here so any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
I get typically one blue screen per night for months now. Sometimes I don't actually crash, but get spells of lag where the machine feels like it is taking forever to respond to actions. Sometimes if I click shutdown in Windows the machine acts like it is going to shut down, then does nothing at all.
So I ran Microsoft's WinDbg on my crash logs and it turns out it is emupia2k.sys ( emupia2k+d7ca ) - after some googling I confirmed this is indeed the culprit.
My board is an MSI P4N Diamond based on Nforce 4 chipset with P4 3ghz, 4GB Ballistix DDR2 RAM, and dual 7800GT's in SLI. I have the latest BIOS (.50), all the latest patches for Windows XP Pro, and the latest Creative drivers for my X-Fi XtremeMusic (2.09.0007 - Oct 30, 2006) and still no dice. Still having the same problems.
I have read about killing some of the processes (ie DLLML.exe) but that seems kinda hack and the one time I did kill DLLML.exe shortly afterwards I still ended up crashing.
Thanks in advance for any information.
--Jon

jutapa wrote:
emupia2k.sys = E-mu Plug-in Architecture Driver (WDM)
dllmll.exe = Creative DLL Module Loader
Have you tried by (temporary) disabling the CTXFISPI.EXE process from running?
Just ctrl+alt+del ... task manager ... processes -tab ... select the ctxfispi and hit the end process -button (the process is ended untill you start it manually or boot next time).
Which processes associated to X-Fi there are running ?
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on -5-2006:4 AM
Have not tried that. Any idea if it will have any adverse effects doing that?

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