I have tried audacity over and again and I just get errors.

The default recording device in Audacity is ALSA: Intel 82801DB-ICH4
(hw:0,0). Nothing happens. I tried MIC ADC(hw:0,1), MIC2(hw:0,2), and
ADC2(hw:0,3) with no luck.

I have a male to male connection. I plug one end into either microphone
or linein. The other to a female in. Then I plug a RadioShake Removable
Telephone Pickup into the other.

(Oh shoot!!! It works perfectly on windows. Didnt want to see that.)

I plug it into the back of my computer and all I get is air. Now, If I
plug one end of the male connector into the ear phones of a cassette
player, I can record the sound - at least on Sound Recorder.

You record the sound but it appears as nothing happens. Save it to your
desktop. Open it again and you can hear what you record. Its totally
useless but it works in that manner.

Well, I guess my ThinkPad with XP is coming to court tomorrow instead of
Ubuntu.