GPO and MNC music contributions

Hi Sherry, Clyde and MG,

Thanks for all the help and suggestions. I am totally unable to get any recorder to work with GPO. I took MG's suggestion and downloaded "Acoustica". I like the recorder better than Audscity, but that won't record with GPO open either. It gives me the same error message as Audacity. Everything will record Composer or any other sounds "as heard", but as soon as I open GPO they turn their noses up. There is nothing I can't record. I am not new to using Audacity. I have used it successfull for over a year without incident. I just uninstalled and downloaded an earlier stable version and that did no good either. Yes, I need to use "stereo mix" as the source also. One thing that Acoustica added to the possible problem list was that the device may be in use by another program. It's not.
There are 48 processes running on my computer but nothing is using a lot of CPU. That ranges from 2% to 3 or 4%. I have no idea what processes I can safely end. Who knows what the processes are? You sure can't tell by looking at the file names ( except for a few ). Maybe I'll get brave one day and try ending a few at a time to see if that helps. The parameters (as far as I can tell) are in agreement 44,100Hz and 16 bit depth on everything. There could be a problem in ASIO4all. My sound card is accepted fine and the "Out" shows available, but the in is "unavailable" . I've tried everything sourceforge recommends there also, but can't get that the way it should be either. I'm thinking of not using the ASIO4all driver, but I don't know what to expect if I don't use it. If I don't get this thing straightened out, I will have to use GPO instruments only. That would take an immense amount of work. My son gave me those programs for Christmas. I don't know how to tell him they are not working for me. He lives right next door so I can't tell him what a wonderful time I am having. He's sure to want to hear it. All I wanted to do was just add a few GPO instruments to each of my files and record them with a nicer sound. Using GPO for everything would make the files huge to say the least. I wouldn't have enough hard drive space left to write a 2 sentence letter. Oh well, if anyone can get me straight, I sure would appreciate it! Thanks again.
Cheers,
Fred

P.S. My son just walked in and, being the honest guy I am, I had to tell him and explain my problems. He said "Dad, I'm 47 years old so I can safely say that over the last 47 years I have never seen you not accomplish what you wanted to accomplish. You'll figure it out and then it will all be easy". What a winner!