FCE won't print to tape

This is one of the stranger problems I've seen; hopefully someone knows a solution!
FCE will capture fine, but it will not print to tape. The deck is recognized; it starts recording and everything, but no audio or video shows up. I've even tried a different deck and firewire cable.
I also tried sharing to the deck in imovie, but with the same results.
Is there a preference somewhere that would cause this?
thanks so much!

You're connecting via firewire and not USB, correct? Have you ever successfully printed to tape using this deck? Do you have a camcorder you could try instead? That would help isolate the problem.

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