Ok, im going to eat some dinner and finish my movie, then I am going to start testing drivers. I backed up to the Feb 2009 release to no avail, but I have dl'd the May and June releases and am going to test them, both with and without the sound fix (switching from default to speakers). Hopefully i will have some results, as I saw many posts with this same problem at the official forums.

But since the Org is my home, i do it here first