Well, their site used to just say mid october, but then they changed it to mid to late oct...
They (creative) told me that some people have had success with the win2k drivers, so of course I tried it... dont bother... it works... sort of... it eliminated the problem of eax being set to full in certain games, but the 30 seconds it added to my boot time, and the crashing during boot every other boot just didnt tickle my willy... Be patient my friend, creative will come through, eventually....