Audigy 2 Platinum ASIO driver problem with Cubase

Already posted this to alt.steinberg.cubase before you ask ;-) No success
though :-(

Has anyone else got their Audigy 2 (Platinum) working properly with Cubase
VST5.x or Cubase SX? Here's the problem - whenever I switch to using the
Creative ASIO driver in Cubase, I can no longer record audio via the
microphone input. If I switch back to the DirectX or Multimedia drivers,
it works fine again, but obviously I bought the card to take advantage of
the low latency ASIO drivers when using VST instruments - I don't want to
have to switch back and forth the whole time.

Also [separate problem I think] the microphone 2 input on the breakout
panel doesn't seem to work properly - if I plug a standard microphone in
and enable mic2 (for record and play) in the mixer program, I get no sound
at all.