Disabling Blackmagic Card Playback in PPro CS4

I am trying to work in Premiere Pro CS4 using footage that I captured from the Blackmagic Intensity Pro card. The timeline is playing on my external device and no matter how times I change the Player and Audio settings, it continues to play audio through the device. It will not play in Premiere at all. Not through speakers nor headphones. Even if I unplug the external monitor from the Intensity Card, it still will not play audio in Premiere.
It plays the source monitor audio through the computer but any playback done in the Timeline doesn't. Please help me, I am so confused.

I created a new sequence using the standard Premiere Pro NTSC settings and copy everything over. It works. I didn't realize that I was creating Blackmagic sequences. I'm going to test it out with some other projects I was having problems with.
Thanks a bunch. This was driving me nuts.

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:24:41 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Cannot save PPro CS4 project created on another PC
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