Snack, crackle, pop!....my Audigy oddissey!

After 6 grueling hours of research and trying every suggesttion I was about
to give up when all of the sudden I HAD SOUND!
Unfortunately Vista does not have a new theme sound. ...oh well
But for all of those that are going through the same pains that I am here is
what I have and what I did.
I have an HP Pavillion 64 3300+ and I installed an Audigy 2 value edition
soundcard.
Before I upgraded I wanted to make sure that there were drivers for VIsta
and having found so I decided to go ahead and take the jump.
Much to my dismay I found out that it was not right for Vista beta 2.

After seeing that it did not work I decided to see if I installed the XP 64
driver that maybe I could fool the system.
The installation went great and when I saw a gree speaker at the bottom of
the screen I was in 7th. heaven only to find out that according to the device
manager erverything was working properly but I had no sound. So after that I
decided to run the Vista 64 installation program again and I must admit that
I was about to go to bed in frustration only to hear the Windows theme!!!!
I hope this can save some time to some of you.
Best of luck. Now if I can only get to import my Outlook messages back into
Outlook I will be eternally grateful and a step closer to a full system.