The maudio card will give you multiple analog outputs, and you should be able to assign them to each of the inputs corresponding to your 5.1 system (have fun, it WILL be a pain, and probably wont work outside of a multichannel recording software environment...)
Are you planning on doing some 5.1 mixing? or are you just going to watch movies in surround, record in stereo?
You might just want to get a second external surround card, and just boot up your pc with one attached at a time. this will give you the most functionality and ease of use.
maudio has some good beginner's stuff. i have an maudio card, as well as the bx5 monitors... they also have a studio grade surround sound set if you search for it. if youre going to get into recording music, you'll find that everyone can't stress enough how important your speakers (monitors) are... logitech, and other home hi-fi speakers are aren't going to have a flat response that you get from a studio-grade speaker.
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