Steve, how sure are you that your Audigy isn't XP/2000 compatible?

I have an Audigy Platinum, (the first generation), running on XP, it works fine. Had to download the drivers for XP, (from Creative) like it says on the bottom of the Audigy box... no problem, really. Check the fine print on your box if you still have it.

In fact I'm just getting around to learning to multi-track on it. Cubasis VST was the bundled software, I spent half a day and gave up on it--switched to N-Track which works OK. (Not great documentation, but far better than the useless pile-o-screenshots labelled with engineering twaddle which Cubasis passes off as a helpfile.)   

Bill