FCP 7 No Audio Captured

Here is my Set up. I have a MacPro 10.6.1 Snow Leopard. Final Cut Pro all in put devices are connected through a AJA Kona LHi capture card and through the AJA KLHi box. When capturing, all the video is captured perfectly, but absolutely no audio is being captured. Nothing at all. No waveforms on the captured clips ... nothing. I can hear the audio fine during capture from the device, but it is not actually capturing the audio. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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