I think it unlikely that it is copy protection given what the program is and the fact that to cure it I went to a more bit pure less processed configuration.

In terms of having the sound card put out analog as well as spdif, I would love it. That is what I have been unable to do. The headphone jack is dead when the sound card is set to spdif.

Since the 990 second zone will not decode spdif, I will have to keep the second decoder until someone figures out how to make the sound card put out spdif and analog.

Thanks all for the replies.

Allen