Cannot get optical audio in working

Hi all,
I have a new MacBook Pro (latest 2010 version) which I specifically bought for audio recording/editing purposes.
However, I cannot get it to work at all, recording is useless except for a normal 3.5mm stereo-in jack. I cannot get the MacBook Pro to record either through optical audio in (my preferred solution) or through my EMU0404 USB soundcard. I basically have a £1,000 brick with a light in the shape of an Apple on the outside and, as it's my first Apple computer, I'm struggling to fix the issue (and struggling to avoid calling it all kinds of names on this forum!)
Any help would be appreciated. I've tried changing the settings in the MIDI setup under utilities, but it's just not recognising the input. Whenever I plug the optical cable in, the Sound preferences screen automatically defaults it to 'Digital Out' and won't allow me to select anything other than the onboard mic as the input source.

Do you by any chance have the 13 inch MacBook Pro? This has only one 3.5mm jack, switchable between input and output; but there is no optical input, only output. Inserting an optical cable into this jack will cause the socket to default to output only (since it knows you want optical and there is no optical input), leaving the internal mic as the only possible input.
The EMU soundcard claims to use CoreAudio and so should work without drivers and appear as an option in Sound>input. Are you trying to use an unsupported sampling rate? - their tech spacs page says 'Macintosh analog operation up to 96kHz and digital operation up to 48kHz only at this time.' If you still can't get any sense out of it, it would be worth approaching the manufacturer.

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