Audacity woes

[zvi]

I've got xubuntu 9.10 and audacity 1.36 and I'm trying to make them play nicely together. I've got ALSA set up so the mic is in and I can get it to play the audio from the mic out to the speakers, but audacity is not registering any sound whatsoever.

Can someone tell me in small words if I need to disable pulseaudio and how I would go about doing that?