[Skeeter] “My Premiere is working fine, Completely normal… its everything else doesn’t work.
Somehow, the only program (including Windows) that is giving me audio playback/sound effects is my PPro2.”
Have you checked to see if your other programs are configured enabled to your sound system?
Ex: In Media Player you goto the Tool dropdown menu and select options and see what devices are being used for sound and check the advanced settings, other programs may have a Preferences instead of options or maybe a device listing in one of their dropdown menus.