Using Universal Dock in a car

I read a suggestion by someone to use a dock for holding your iPod in a car, and using the line out port to plug in a cassette adapter. Since I have a Peripheral Electronics iPod2Car in my car, I don't need a cassette adapter, but thought the dock would be a good way to mount the iPod for easy viewing. The iPod2Car plugs into the dock connection in the iPod, the cable then enters a box with DIP switches, and the final connection is a vehicle specific cable that plugs into the receiver's external CD changer input. Works well and charges the iPod as well as playing it through the car stereo. Yesterday I plugged the iPod into the Universal Dock and connected the iPod2Car cable to the back of the dock. The iPod sat up nicely and powered up. Only problem: no sound. I figured the dock would simply pass the connection on the iPod through the dock to the iPod2Car connector. When I scrolled the click wheel I could hear it through the car speakers, but when I selected a song and pressed play, I got no sound. Am I wrong to assume that the pins on the back of the dock are just like those in the iPod itself? Does the dock not just pass the iPod connections through to the connection on the back of the dock? I had hoped that this would be a great way to mount my iPod and still make use of my direct connection to my car stereo.
PowerBook G4, Blue and White G3>4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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