kickaha, I thought that was the case, you have a SBLive card. Which one are you using and are you using LiveWire 3. If you are using LW3 you are out of luck. There is a compartiblty problem between LW3 and DirectX 8.x. The orginal SBLive cards with LW 2.5 did not have this problem. CL's has never fix this problem. They did fix it for there new Audigy card.
You did not state what your OS was. If you have XP try download the CL SBLive update for XP. I doudt it will help.
Brian, it bad matter to jump on some else's thread in the Tech Support section with your problems. It hard to keep track of who you are helping and their problems. I started to answer your post thinking it was kickaha I was reponsing too.
Please start a new thread and post your system info.