Zenith dvt216 and ps3 optical digital cord

Hi, I am a newb when it comes to home entertainment. I am trying to hook my ps3 up to my zenith dvt216 using a digital optical cable. I know that it has to be connected correctly because I think that part is pretty hard to mess up. I have changed my ps3 settings for sound output to optical digital and have selected the output format supported to linear pcm 2 ch. 44.1 khz and linear pcm 2 ch 48khz. This part is something I am not sure I am doing right. I am also not sure what I need to put my zenith dvt216 to in order to get sound I have tried video 1 ana and video 2 ana, however neither is getting sound... I have no clue what to do, and I dont know where a remote is...Please help.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=378&view=by_date _ascending&page=5
Try the instructions about copying part of the XP drivers into System32 for vista.
The current drivers for vista apparently don't support DTS & Optical in, that's why the spot where you would enable your DTS/Digital decoder is greyed out.
Beware though, in XP with the XFI, when I have the decoder enabled, I get 5. sound fine with DTS on the PS3, Dolby Digital lags though and cli
ps.
The bad thing though is anything using Linear PCM (2 channel stereo) which is most PS/PSX/Music, the XFI will randomly think a DTS signal is coming through the optical cable and mutes. This causes the audio to cut out in anything not 5. on the PS3, about 2 seconds at a time, every 5-0 minutes. Very irritating, and so far the only way I can fix it is by turning off the XFI's DTS/Digital decoder whenever I'm not playing a game with DTS or Digital sound.
With the decoder off, anything outputting DTS or Digital will be silent. Switching the decoder on will make the Simpsons demo play, since it only outputs in DTS or Digital, and has no Linear PCM audio included.

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