No luck trying to capture vinyl albums

I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong when using Soundbooth to capture audio from vinyl albums. I'm using a turntable that's connected to a receiver. I've got RCA jacks connected to the receiver's tape playback plugs with the other end connected to my computer's Line In input. But when I try to record, I get no audio signal at all.
I've done all this successfully before (with an older XP computer and Goldwave software), but now I'm stymied with Soundbooth and a new Vista machine.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
steve

Have you got the correct pair of RCAs connected to the line-in of your PC? There are usually two pairs one for feeding in to the amp from the recorder and one for feeding out of the amp to the recorder. Sometimes the labelling is confusing as to which are ins and which are outs.

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