Record Mode Stuck in Adobie Audition 1.5

I have worked with Adobe Audition for a number of years, but came across a problem a friend had that I have never run into.
He was trying to get the mic volume to work correctly so he could record and somehow in his journey, he managed to disable the record function of A.A. 1.5.

When you go to the regular screen to record and click on the record button nothing happens, PLUS, the stop button is greyed out so it's like A.A. isn't even recognizing that something is trying to be recorded. (Playback works fine!) I looked at all of the features on A.A. that I know about to see if he checked something that would inadvertently turn off the record function, but found nothing. He is running on an XP platform, so I went into the audio devices of Windows and didn't find anything amiss there either.

Anyone else experience this?

The only thing I know to tell him at this point is to either spend hours trying to run down the problem or uninstall and then reinstall A.A.

Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

TLW Media

Did you check in Audition under Options/Device Properties to see what was selected for recording?

Yes, we checked that. The drop down box only shows his one sound card, so there are no other choices.

So no Wave Mapper? That's odd...

In the 'Wave In' box there are several options - including try as WDM. Have you tried altering these? Any one of them being wrong could potentially stop 1.5 recording. The other thing to try is Windows Recorder. If this doesn't work either, you have an OS problem (Audition 1.5 uses the same dlls, etc). If it does work, then reinstalling Audition is about the only option you have left. Might be worth doing though - it's not exactly difficult. Also, try reinstalling the sound device driver.

The windows media recorder did work, so it looks like we may be back to re-installing A.A. Anyway, thanks for th input!

TLW Media