Audio Line In/Internal Mic ignored if FireWire DV camera seen first?

I've been working streaming a broadcast that is intended to consist of audio fed into an MBP via its line in and video fed in via FireWire.
However, I've found quite often that if after boot the audio input is plugged in too quickly after the FireWrie connection is hot plugged, the MBP will not "see" the incoming audio, nor will it see audio coming from the internal mic; I can plug the cable in and out several times but the Sound preference pane never shows input audio.
However, if I unplug the FireWire and plug it back in, it seems the MBP will continue to see the audio in and the FireWire camera.
This also works if I wait to make sure the MBP can "see" the line in before hot-plugging the FW camera.
Has anyone else seen this? Anyone know of any other workarounds other than to make sure the line in audio is "seen" before plugging in the camera?
This is within the context of Ustream, but the audio isn't even being seen at the Finder level.

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