acid music studio 9 & asio4all

[new_acid_hater]

So, I knew I should have just waited and bought ableton and used it on my linux box, but I fucked up and went ahead and bought sony acid music studio 9. The latency is absolutely fucking horrendous, since I only have an onboard sound card. I'm trying to use asio4all to fix this problem but now I'm having problems with asio4all. It installs fine, and the control panel for it shows all devices are recognized and active when acid is open. The trouble is, when I set my audio device to asio4all, i can neither record nor playback sound. When I try to record, the channel mixer shows some activity but it is not affected by the input (like it's trying to record but no input is getting to it). I have a usb microphone and no, there are no asio drivers for it. Also, when I try to use asio4all as my audio device to playback a recording that i made with microsoft mapper as my audio device, it will look like it is playing through, there will be real activity in the channel mixer so I can tell the program thinks it is playing back music, but there won't be any sound!

Any help would be appreciated, I am about to set my computer on fire

[new_acid_hater]

update, got asio4all working, but now all recordings suffer from distortion. Every 10-30 seconds, it will either echo, scratch, pop or get static. No changes to latency compensations or sample sizes have been successful so far. Any suggestions?