Help required: Guitar to USB Lead cuts all sound

Hi, I'm having a small problem I'm hoping someone clever here might have a quick solution to:
I recently bought this Guitar to USB lead:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=225789
And plugged it into my MacBook after booting up Logic. The problem is that
when the lead is plugged in it cuts all sound from Logic - i.e. I cannot
hear any other tracks playing, nor indeed the guitar sound itself (but
other applications such as Safari do have sound). Logic is recognising the
lead's input, the levels go up when I strum the guitar and I can record the
guitar as audio into Logic. But I cannot hear the recorded guitar parts or
anything else until I remove the USB lead. Which makes the thing pretty
useless really...unless of course I'm being useless (a likely outcome).
So, can anyone supply a reason why plugging in this USB to guitar lead into
a Macbook with Logic is cutting all sound from Logic?
Thanks
(I bought this lead because I wanted a simple and cheap plug-and-play to connect my guitar to Logic - if someone has another solution for this then I'd also be interested in hearing that - thanks!)

I'm pretty sure an Aggregate device -WILL- work. In fact I know you have to use one.
Make sure your Aggregate device uses the Built-in audio OUT as the master clock device.
Also, If your USB guitar shows up as both an input and output device in aggregate setup -do not- include the output device newly created aggregate device.
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