Mr Scorcex

Here's the story: My roommate and I, having just moved in and not unpacked a TV, decide to watch a DVD on my laptop. Naturally, we have to use his fancy ass 5.1 speaker system to listen to it. Fine. Problem is, about half of the audio input breaks off in the audio in slot. Shit. Now my onboard speakers read an input, so won't play, and my desktop speakers won't go in, because there's a hunk of metal stuck in the input. Nothing can get it out, but I discover I can use my audio drivers to reroute my microphone input to serve as the audio output. It's slightly inconvenient, but this works beautifully, for the moment.

Now here's where my school comes in: they mandate that everyone with windows use windows update. Again, fine. Until last night, after watching south park, I shut down my computer and some updates install. Nothing new, no big deal. I start up my computer today after class, and boom, I get an error message saying that a certain .dll (the one that presumable controls my audio) won't work because it is now a windows only .dll area, whatever that means.

Long story short, the program I was using to reroute my audio out through my mic jack now won't load, and I can't hear a damn thing out of my computer. Tried updating/reinstalling drivers, no dice. Tried a system restore to before the updates, no dice.

Does anyone know of a program that could allow me to continue to reroute my audio out through my mic jack?

Edit: Heres the error message: The system DLL user32.dll was relocated in memory. The application will not run properly. The relocation occurred because the DLL C:\Windows\system32\HHCTRL.OCX occupied an address range reserved for Windows system DLLS. The vendor supplying the DLL should be contacted for a new DLL.