Steinbergusers.com: trouble getting started

I am a complete newbie to cubase and im having serious troublegetting any kind of sound or sound signal.
I have a laptop with windows xp and an edirol fa-66 audio interface attached by firewire. Through these ive got a pair of monitor speakers in the outputs and a condenser mic in the inputs. I am sure ive got the right bussing in the device set up menu and have tried every possible combo but cannot get any sound when recording.
the audio int. is set up correctly as i have no trouble playing cds through the monitors. I feel I am missing something blatantly obvious and need some help so i can get underway putting down some guitar.

please someone help me im getting really stressed!

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