Using NI's Guitar Rig 3 Session I/O

Just got Native Instrument's audio interface Guitar Rig 3 Session I/O. It sounds great with headphones but I can't get a sound through to Garageband 3 (which I'm using with my G4 1.5 Mhz running 10.4.11). Guitar Rig shows up in the Audio Unit modules and the FX are listed. It shows a signal coming through to the Real Instrument track, but there's no sound--not with headphones, not through the stereo. The volume slider is greyed out. And the volume on Guitar Rig has no effect.
Anyone know how to make this work?
Cheers,
GB

I paid $129d--but I wanted to get 3 because I was intending to use it with my Pismo 550 Mhz G4. It loaded alright, but it asked me to upgrade, and as soon as I did that it wouldn't work on the Pis. So I transferred everything to the 12" G4, which would probably run 4.
I fiddled with the different settings, but I don't know what I'm doing. Have to say, with every sound software I've used by far the most frustrating thing was the most basic--the audio/midi settings. I don't really understand why, if software can "see" the interface, and can register the signal, why it can't also just switch the settings to whatever might be required. It was the same with Pro Tools, same with Garageband come to that. I always end up spending a week with it, get nowhere, and end up putting it on the shelf. And it's not that I'm computer dumb--been using Macs and PCs for twenty years with all sorts of different software. I can take em apart and soup em up, but sound software always makes me crazy.
I guess I'll have to spend more time with it.

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