Logic Pro 8: No sound from keyboard

Hello All,
I bought myself a copy of Logic Pro 7 a while back and have been struggling with what I'm sure is a simple problem, I just don't know the answer to it. I've tried the Tutoral song to learn the basics. When I select an instrument in Logic and play my keyboard, there's no sound. I can see the MIDI note events in the transport bar, if I open environment window I can see the on-screen keyboard responding to my external keyboard when I play its keys.
I'm assuming I have some setting wrong somewhere, because according to the manual I should just be able to select an instrument and start playing. I hear playback of the tutoral song fine, I have a copy of NI B4 that I can play with no problem, iTunes plays through my interface... M-Audio Firewire Audiophile
I tried everything suggested in the Logic 7 troubleshooting guide on the Apple support website to no avail.
Stumped...

This should really be in the Logic Pro 7 forum, not Logic 8, but let's overlook that for now..
You probably simply had a regular MIDI track selected, which sends MIDI out to external instruments (which it sounds like you don't have).
If you want to play Logic instruments, you must select an "Audio Instrument" track, and then load the instrument plugin you want to play in it's input slot (say, the EVP88). Now, your MIDI notes will play that instrument.

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