wine users - Feb 2010 - Microphone Problems

I'm having some problems configuring my microphone to work in Wine. It is a
standard analog (not usb) microphone. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, Wine 1.1.38,
and using the ALSA drivers in winecfg.

Although Wine detects my microphone, depending on how I set-up the mixers in
ALSAmixer, Windows programs in Wine only pick up static or nothing at all. For
example, Rosetta Stone 3.4.5, although able to detect my microphone, is not able
to pick up my voice. My microphone works fine in native Linux apps (GNOME voice
recorder, Audacity, etc.)

Any suggestions on how I might fix this? I would REALLY like to be able to use
Rosetta Stone to it's fullest extent without having to boot into my Windows
partition!  :P

thanks!

After some playing around in the ALSA mixer, it appears I can either have Wine
pickup static or nothign at all. This is directly related to the PCM mixed
setting. At or below a -5.00dB adjustment, Rosetta Stone can not detect any
sound. At or above a -4.00dB adjustment, Rosetta Stone picks up wild
fluctuations in volume even if I'm not producing any sound. Having
pulseaudio enabled or disabled has no change in effect. I have a HDA Nvidia
soundcard chipset if that helps at all.

Again, native Linux apps pick up my voice fine. I REALLY would like to be able
to use the voice recognition software in Rosetta Stone? Any suggestions?
Please?! haha