Well from what I saw it is a remove of alsa everything. Then you do a find on all the packages that are still using the lib files and recompile without alsa. Then remove the libs. It looked like alot of work but as with gentoo it is worth it. Personally my sound card loves alsa. Just have to remember that when recompiling the kernel to remerge alsa and also add my video drivers. I should make an ebuild for my video drivers. Using a Kyro2 card and the drivers have to be loaded everytime I recompile also.

Thanks for the tip Claus, the emu10k1 driver off sourceforge sounds 1000% better than the alsa one.

Glad it worked for you. I can't wait to junk this card I have now for a Sound Blaster Live 5.1