Hooking IPOD to Creative Labs external speakers

I just purchased a set of speakers and subwoofer,
Creative Labs, to hook my IPOD up to; everything
seems be hooked up correctly, but no sound comes out
of the speakers. The Creative Labs people said they
couldn't help me, that I had to contact IPOD support,
which of course, is impossible. Is there some trick
to this? Is there a different cable that goes from
the IPOD to the input jack of the speakers? Or what
the heck could be wrong??
Please help - these speakers are for a party
Saturday, 8/26!!!!!
I called Circuit City, where I purchased the speakers at, some nice person there told me I had to have the volume of my IPOD turned all the way up in order for it to work. Which I then did, and it deed indeed work wonderfully. Shame on the idiots at Creative Labs who couldn't share that bit of information, and shame on Apple for not having a phone number of anyone to contact, or at least one that isn't hidden in layers.

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