SBLive Platinum 5.1 Live Drive

Hi. Got one of those live drive things w/the spid in/out, 1/4" mic in, etc.
Thing here is I've never used it, tried it once forget what the results
were and that was a tempermental machine. Ok, so got this thing wired up
right, has power, can see the light in the optical out, question is- How do
I activate this thing?

Ok, my 1/4" headphones thing doesn't play sound but since I had the drivers
from creative's website, just drivers w/audio hq, eax, etc, I started with
the original cd. This thing like 4 years old but I installed all the 'old'
stuff (or original stuff) on xp sp1. I want sp1. Anyway, I then got all
the updates from the site and updated all that. Overall this is like a
device sitting out there and it's got power but I have no of the inputs for
line2's as the docs talk about.

I've applied also the latest drivers but when I do run the remote, it says:
"unable to detect any Creative Remote Control Receiver." Now I read about
this in applying drivers and re-applied but this hasn't changed. This is
for the infra-red window for the creative remote control right? If so,
yeah, the app won't launch anyway.

Then, and again, should I be getting audio out of the headphones thing?
Obviously at some point, how do I know when this thing is working right or
not? -TIA. Thanks. -jimbo