Audio playback in Final Cut Express 4

Captured some clips and started a sequence all was fine. rebooted the software to get around an issue where it wouldnt let me drop any transitions in which is now fine. Now however im not getting any audio playback even though i can see the audio on the VUs. Now in system setting i Audio capture in the scratch disc section is not highlighted.. This is doing my head in cant find away around it. Please help..

Ignore the greyed out "Audio Capture".
It has always been like that and you can't alter it from the scratch disk you have set for the video.

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