Midi playback, Audio Input tracks, record limit

I just bought logic express and Im having a few problems.
1. I like to do live recording and Im using an Alesis multimix 16 firewire mixer. I checked into Logic express's specs and it says it can handle 12 input tracks, but if I try to arm more than 9 of my firewire input tracks They disarm themselves. 9 is a lot but i bought it expecting to have 12 and thats important to me. any way I can get the other ones to work?
2. whenever I play my midi keyboard and record, or whenever I add loops to the software instrument tracks I get no sound on playback. ive updated my software and I cant figure out what else to do.
3. I havent tried to record a concert yet, but how long can I record without it stoping, and is there anyway I can extend that without purchasing a FW hardrive, I have a USB one but i dont know that that would help.
thanks in advance
-brandon

I can't get input audio to playback in Vista either, and it works fine in XP on the same machine. I have a X-Fi Elite pro and ALL of my inputs show as "currently unavailable" in the Vista recording devices dialog.
I'm sure Vista made it a pita for sound card companies but come on, it's been months now since release and so far the Vista drivers for X-Fi are mediocre at best and are lacking a lot of the features found on XP.
Not to mention the boxes show "Vista ready" or whatever.
Anyway a solution to this problem would be appreciated!

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