"there is no technical support as yet and the release notes are peppered with warnings not to go fiddling with it unless you really know what you're doing"

Was there ever any technical support from Creative in the first place?

Creative lost me as a customer long ago...

Several Audigy cards are hardly "whole" SB range.. When they support everything from (at least!) SB Live! 5.1 to new X-Fi PCI-E cards, than it will be "WHOLE SB RANGE". For me, this is just a driver supporting 6-7 cards ou of the WHOLE RANGE.

Hmmm, isnt the bigger problem issues with Vista and X-fi cards?

I would have thought that was the bigger fish to fry, rather than out-of-date audigy :(