At my own risk? What's the dangers.
Would make sense as most people make the mistake of trying to use the builtin sound driver for WIndows 7, as opposed to loading the native sound card drivers.
never found out how to update OpenAL.
http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/default.aspx. Click on the Downloads link and then download the OpenAL Windows installer and run it.ack-ack