Good news, I 5 boxed for quite awhile this evening and the new sound driver has completely removed any crackling and popping noises. I have no idea where I got the driver from but I still have the rar file so I am uploading it to my webserver right now and I will make a new thread and post the link in here with a description of what it does when its done uploading in an hour or so (its 70mb and my upload speed sucks).