MXL Studio 1 USB Microphone

I am so frustrated.  I’d like to think that I know enough about enough that I can troubleshoot most of my own technical issues.  This time, however, I am stumped on what to do.

I own a Macbook, early 2009 generation, and have had no problems with it.  I also cashed in on the great deals of the Mac Hiest 3 Bundle in Spring of 2009 and got a copy of the video production application BoinxTV.  I was planning on using that, along with my webcam and an MXL Audio Studio 1 USB microphone to record and produce a Christmas video this year.

My problem is with the microphone.  For reasons that I cannot figure out, my Mac does not recognize the MXL microphone. I have tried it in Wire Tap Studio, BoinxTV, and of course in the sound preferences panel within Mac OS X.  Thinking that it may be the mic itself, I tried it on a Vista machine, and it worked fine.  I decided that perhaps I needed a driver, so I searched for one, and have so far came up short.  I have also tried updating the operating system and restarting the machine.

Does anyone out there have any ideas to what my problem is? This is a really nice microphone, and I would hate to have to find a different one.  If you can help me, please leave a comment, send me a tweet (@danielvining) or shoot me an email (dan@danielvining.com)

Many thanks in advance.