Sound problems!

I just got an sb Extigy + Inspire 5500 surround speaker system and for
some reason the sound is even MORE horrible now - like locational
sounds are cut of to the extreme.

Take a map like Asbestos, I go in the LG room and I can bearly hear the
generators except when I allmost jump on them, then they go extremely
loud, same with weapon explosions and all other locational sounds, if
something is a little bit away you can't hear it, like the sound radius
on everything is set very small.

Also of I am in a room and just peek into the next room the sound cuts
of 100% so I can't hear people coming around corners at all.

I tried the new OpenALL from the official site but that just made it more
extreeme.

If I put a DVD on everything sounds awesome.

Is UT2003's hardware sound just this bad? UT99's surround sounded
WAY better than this, and I could actually pinpoint where people were
with just the slightest noise.

Well that sucks then, seeing as they recommend people to get the
audigy card on the back of the box and on the official site.

Im getting the feeling that to get any 3D sound at all, I ALSO
have to get a motherboard that can do the DD encoding?

Because it sounds like the sounds that SHOULD be coming out of
my rear speakers are not there at all, like its not getting output at all.

But with a DVD there is sound out of all speakers in both PROLogic
Surround AND in Dolby Digital so my setup seems to be ok.

Yeah I know, I was just using the DD from my DVD to test that
my system worked and was setup properly.

Its just disapointing that the sound is so bad, like I can stand somewhere
and hear a generator go hmmmmm and then move my mouse 1 centimeter
to the left or right and the sound is gone, like an on/off button + all I
realy hear is spread out stereo, not 3d audio at all.

In old ut when I played with the old Dolby ProLogic 4 speaker
system I could hear if someone picked something up behind me
to the left and predict using audio clues, now in the latest greatest
ut2003 sound is next to useless - try starting a botmatch on say
antalus with no bots, then add one bot and stay where you are
and use the audio cues such as pickups to locate the bot.

That's allmost impossible, only reason I know where people are, is
because I know where stuff is around the levels, so I use that to
locate people when I hear it gets picked up, locational audio is horrible.