Big Problem in Logic, If you can solve this problem ur truly a Mac Genius

Question

Hello folks, as the title suggests, I have an enourmous problem. I am an 18 year old aspiring producer/engineer who cashed out his entire savings to buy a sick mobile recording setup to take to Germany for a year as a foriegn exchange student. The bare bones of my setup are as follows:
1.83 gHz Macbook pro with 1.5 gb Ram
Logic Pro 7 universal
Presonus Firepod
Glyph 80 gb 7200 rpm drive
Here is the problem. When I try to record a track in Logic Pro, the bar ruler lights up red like it is supposed to, as does the record and play buttons in the transport window, but no window comes up saying recording to blah blah blah HD, and then instead of recording the Song Position line just moves forward like normal but leaves behind no audio region.
Here is where it gets tricky. Logic will record with the built in Microphone, but not the Firepod. Garageband works absolutely perfect with the Firepod and as far as I can tell the Firepod works perfectly. I have tried all of the obvious solutions so far such as repairing permissions, deleting preferences, blah blah blah, the support staff at sweetwater (who I bought the system from) can't say why it isn't working because everything is compatible, apple couldn't fix it and then said it was because I didn't have a 7200 rpm drive, then I bought one and it still didn't work. What the **** am I supposed to do!
As far as I can tell there is some sort of OSX incompatibility with this system that should have been fixed long ago. By the same token there are other people sucessfully using the exact same setup as I. Please god, or anyone else out there with a solution, what should I do to get this system working! I am so anxious about this!

Answer 1

Ok, In my hardware/audio drivers pane, logic recognizes the firepod by name. I have it selected there although this device does in fact use core audio drivers to run not 3rd party ones... In addition it doesn't matter one bit what input I have selected because it doesn't even leave behind a blank audio region. It leaves absolutely nothing behind. I have also tried refreshing my record paths many times. I have no clue then why my buttons and bar ruler light up, does this indicate anything to you guys as to the nature of the problem? Applecare is pretty stumped. I recently did a complete reinstall of everything, including OSX, then did all the software updates and that still didn't work. As for the aggregate workaround, I have not yet tried that. This is such a wierd deal because sometimes it will record one track just fine, and then I will try it seconds later with the exact same setup, and it won't work. So basically it has recorded quite a number of times with my setup, it just refuses to do it the majority of the time. ***!