Griffin iMic and Edirol PCR-A30 conflict

Garageband band gives me the following error and I must then force quit:
Garageband detected a possible conflict between one or more third party midi or audio drivers
Be sure to install the latest for all audio or midi equipment connected to your computer, and remove any old or unused driver.
I updated from the Edirol site to the newest software they had available.
I am only using one device at a time.
I trashed the Garageband prefs and then set the Sound Prefs to the iMic in Audio Output.
Any help to a newbie using Garageband 3 would be helpful.
Thanks.

Even more interesting. I updated the Edirol driver v. 1.2.0 .I took the Griffin iMic out of the loop. I trashed my prefs and any created Garageband songs, selected the Edirol as the input in the Sounds Preferences in System Preferences, output as my headphones. Restarted the computer and opened Garageband 3.
It took a long time to initialize but worked.
Closed the program. Opened it and received the error message above yet again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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