Have NO idea how to link GB3 to Rode mike via Focusrite Saffire

Hey there folks- I asked for help in working out what equipment was needed to connect a decent enough mike to my MacBook Pro's GarageBand 3 and was told that the Focusrite Saffire with the Rode NT-1 mike would be as professional a set up as any without totally breaking the bank.
Well- I have finally made it and have bought it! Pop filters, tripod stands and headphones and stuff...
Lass sings like an angel and needs to monitor her backing tracks (which I must record as one track), sing and be recorded and I must mix the two to produce her vocals over the backing.
Now- I have NO idea what on EARTH I am doing and neither come with much by way of instruction.
The Saffire has the mike lead on socket 1 with the other end in the Rode mike. Saffire is attached to the MBPro via Firewire but I am not clear where the headphones connect and so forth.
Software is now installed and NOW WHAT?
I realise how much easier it is to pay someone to sit and DO this stuff but she is wanting to do it at home (quite frankly for the price of the equipment we would only GET one day of recording at our local studio).
IS there a fool-proof and VERY simple tutorial on what connects to what, how I play a track for her from where (do her headphones plug into the Saffire or the MBPro?) so she can sing to it and I can import it to Garageband for me to eventually mix the vocals to, and how to GET the vocals onto the MBPro?
I guess I am asking for a tutorial for idiots for the Focusrite (physical and software) and also for Garageband 3 when used with this kind of external equipment because I am realising that I have not only to make sure the physical equipment is attached just so but also that the Saffire software works and then GarageBand 3...

Thanks for that. The two headphone outlets on my Saffire (not the LE- the dearer one... LOL!) are obvious, but because I use GarageBand and NOT the software for the Saffire, I cannot get them to work. It is simply not possible to output to the Saffire and get sound to emit from them. And yes- I do know they have separate controls for volume.
Not sure why I ought NOT to monitor from the Mac? It works perfectly well... Not ideal as I had to buy a headphone splitter so that I could monitor together with the singer but hey- at least she can now hear herself as well!
I wouldn't mind HAVING the Saffire work but it didn't matter what settings I adopted on ANY of the sound controls they were just not working right, so if you have a clue (so nice to actually find someone else who uses this set up?) I'd be grateful (although I would then need to find another adaptor for the headphone jack... LOL! Never simple, is it?).
I guess that I am doing everything via GB3 and NOTHING via the Saffire Control...

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