Jasonsos,
You on the money. Cmedia card works like it suppose to now. dxdiag doen't gripe, and I have sound in the games that gave me problems. I wish I knew what part of the update fixed it, but as long as it works, it's not really that important. Thanks for the help.
P.S.
For others that are looking for the update, I found it at....
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...ice-Pack.shtml