Sounds like Darth Vader with a bad cold

I don't use Soundtrack Pro much but it's worked fine in the past for me. Today though when I try to record a simple V/O I sound like Darth Vader with a very bad cold after a hard night of drinkin' and smokin'. It's just awful and light years away from what it ought to sound like. I did just upgrade to OS 10.6.6, could that be the issue??

After all that it turns out that STP didn't like the way I had my input set-up. I'm using an M-Audio MobilePre USB interface and had it set to "stereo" and had the channels below (numbers 1-6) set as 1,1 (with the following 3,4,5,6 grayed out). I then reset those channels to 1,2 and while I get great sounding audio it is now only a left signal. How do I set it up so that I can hear both channels in my headphones and also get both a left and right signal for playback?
Thanks for all of your help.

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