I need some old drivers to work after Lion install, any tweaks for that?

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I have Firewire interfaces from Alesis as well as a Zoom R16 and an old Tascam US122 and NONE of the drivers will work with Lion. I've been in touch with Alesis and they say they're "working on it". Meanwhile I have a recording session booked for next week and it looks like I'm going to have to either cancel or revert to Snow Leopard to get the job done. I haven't ever had this much of an issue when updating the OS before. I'm trying to stay calm but I have to admit to being in a bit of a panic.
Zoom support said it was a Lion problem and left me with the impression they weren't even investigating the issue. I haven't tried getting in touch with Tascam because the device itself is old.
The Alesis gear includes a Multimix 16FW and an IO|26 which used the same driver in Snow Leopard.
Any solutions that might get me going, particularly with the Alesis gear, would be greatly appreciated

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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
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Step 1
Copy or drag — do not type — the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
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