No audio input on vocal tracks

I've tried to get my voice into a song but so far have had no luck. Neither the internal mike works nor my AK5370 USB mic (so says SysPrefs; it's actually a vXi TalkPro xPress headset mic).
I checked the Sound in SysPrefs and my input goes through fine. But when I hit record on the Male Basic vocal track in GarageBand, nothing goes through. (I have a soft voice and raising the input levels didn't help any).

I have that same Labtec Mic, and I remember experimenting with it and found sometimes it worked with GB and sometimes it didn't. I never found the pattern and since that mic wasn't going to be used professionally with GB, I never put TOO much effort into tracking it down.
So let's see if we can't the internal mic to work. Select it in your System Prefs, then open up GB's prefs and make sure the Input popUp menu is set to "Built-In"
Finally create a New Basic Track, make sure this track is selected, and try recording. Post back and let us know what happens.
--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-|>

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