Maestro3 Howto for a Dell i8k?

[delire]

Hi, i'm having a bizarre problem with my Maestro3 card on a dell inspiron 81k. i've taken off ALSA, which proved to be messing things up for the card, but now when i boot into debian both my sound.o and maestro3.o modules come up 'unused'.. ..however if i manually rmmod then insmod them [only in order] I have working audio again. modprobing those modules though doesn't work... modules under lsmod: maestro3    (unused) ac97_codec    [maestro3] soundcore    [maestro3] sound    (unused) 3c59x short of writing a shell script to rmmod then insmod these everytime i want audio, [i am a musician so this is often] . . . . how can i get my modules to 'stick'? thanks in the bank, de|ire