installed vista ulitimate for my new build, so far im pleased with it, not much driver problems, install problems etc but im only left with 2 more problems to make my time with vista perfect.

this first problem i dont really care if theres no fix to, but does the striker's audio have a soundmax app for vista? i installed the drivers, but i dont see the app for settings, like microphone, speaker setup etc. is it because vista already has one?

the second problem is really getting to me. i have lots of japanese content/read lots of japanese/kanji stuff, but i cant get japanese to work. i tried installing the japanese language pack through windows update, but it didnt seem to work. firefox still shows japanese as random letters, and my songs just have blocks for song titles. am i missing something here, or does vista not support any other language than whats already on here?

thanks guys, waiting for replies.

ran into another small problem. WMP11 keeps shutting down on me after about 5-8 seconds into a song. but then i can just open it back up again and it wont do anything strange after that. then if i wait about 5 mins and try to open WMP again the same thing happens.