I have verified that it is not my headphones responsilbe for this problem as they have worked on other computers running on vista, but everytime I plug them into mine it configures the sound options such that I can't hear anything unless it's running in Windows Media Player. Does anyone have any knowledge of this particular problem?

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A lot of things can cause that. You say MP plays fine without any assistance? R. 
click on the 'Volume' speaker in your icon tray (lower right corner). click on properties 
and see what your settings look like there. If you have something different than 
your basic built in to the motherboard sound (an add on sound card) you need to find 
its audio setup/mixer to check the settings there. also if you run the DirectX Diagnostic 
you can really test things out and find deeper problems there.

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This info won't help issues wiht your sound card, but it is the best guide to Vista 
and how it deals with sound.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/audio/default.mspx

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