24" imac & Logic Pro 7.2.3

Hi, This is my first post here so hello peeps. I have just got a 24" intel Imac and logic pro and Tascam FW1884. It all seemed to work fine for a while then i was putting a guitar track down and I couldnt enable record on the guitar track eventhough I could hear the guitar through the monitors and then i could not disable the guitar input?, also Logic software started acting very irraically, eg I wanted to put in a marker and Logic put in 100 markers as if the key was stuck down. I press stop once and Logic goes to the beginning of the song. It is driving me mad. Any ideas out there?
imac intel 24" Mac OS X (10.4.8)
imac intel 24" Mac OS X (10.4.8) Tascam FW1884

Hi there, I got so frustrated with this I re-installed Logic from the 7.2 crossgrade disk and didnt dowload the 7.2.1 and subsequent updates. And things are back to normal. I do have the most up to date drivers for my Tascam (1.60). I am a little dissapointed with my new iMac and thinking of taking it back and getting a tower. If the imac starts to be problematic again i will try running logic with fw1884 disconected. Thanks

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