I got it to work. What I ended up needing to do was unplug my USB headset, stop the headset driver from launching at start-up, uninstall the sound card and begin from scratch. All is good now. Looks like it was just a strange conflict of drivers.
Hey guys I was hoping for a little insight and maybe someone has also come across this before.
I recently updated the drivers on my Creative X-FI XtremeMusic and the card decided it wanted to reverse the channels on the 5.1 speakers I am using. Basically the rear is now the front and the vise...