Need help connecting my iMac to my receiver

I recently bought this product http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/RCA-mini-spdif.html
the 3.5mm mini to digital coax. I bought it so I could hook up my iMac (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86810) to my receiver. However, I connected it, and no sound came out. On my receiver I kept switching the signal from analog to digital, to see if that would do the trick, but no luck. So then I tried connecting the 3.5mm to my iPod to see if it was just my computer that wasn't compatible, but that didn't work either. Did I pick the wrong cable? Or could it be defective? My coaxial cable for my DVD player works fine by the way

Which iMac do you have? I have the iShight iMac whaich does have a digital out in the form of a mini optical out (through the output jack), you need to get an optical cable with a mini adaper at one end and make sure you select optical rather than coaxical on your reciver if you can...
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/6064041/wo/ER1qnhGv8blL2pY4F IK1iFRH2Zb/3.PSLID?mco=CC849D81&nplm=TF331
Apple has a good cable in the store, its the one I use. If its surround sound you will need to changed a pref in DVD player to let the sound pass through to the reciver to be decoded in DTS or Dolby Digital
All that is assuming you want a digital connection and have an optical in on your amp, otherwise I look silly but you did say you bought a digital cable.
Stu.
Power Mac G5 1.8 Single (900 MHz Front side bus) & iMac G5 iSight 1.9GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.3)  

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