I hate Creative with a passion. I have a Zen Sleek which wouldn't work under Vista. After hours, and I mean hours of updating drivers, reading support forums, upgrading the firmware which also of course formatted the Zen, I have finally got a music player that Vista will recognise...now I have to go and re-sync my music.
Oh, and I have an X-Fi Extreme Music soundcard which crackles , apparently due to a timing incompatibility with Nvidia nForce4 mobos..and according to Creative forums that would be Nvidia's fault !
Think I'll buy an I-Pod !!