Getting a Mic to work on a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard and Windows 7 using Parallels??

Hello,

After moving house I have just set up my mac mini with snow leopard OSX V.10.6.8. I run Parallels V.5 so that I can use Dragon Naturally Speaking V.10 for dictation. The microphone I use is a Jabra GN9530 that has a base station that connects to the mini via USB and the headset/microphone is wireless.

i have had this set up running successfully until now! I cant calibrate the mic because Dragon says it cant hear it??

1. In the sound preferences I have selected the GN9350 as the device for sound input.

2. The input volume is turned up.

Other than plug it in and turn the power on there shouldn't be any more to it? Would the mic and mini respond better if the mic was plugged into the high speed USB port?

Any ideas as to how I can get this going and get dictating?

I've worked backwards and around the twist trying to find the issue and it appears that the problem is that the mini or (hardwear) isn't recognizing the Mic. When I go into System Preferences > Sound: I should see under name and type, GN 9350 / USB. This wasn't happening for sometime but for some reason it's decided to show up constantly. All the connections are good. How can I make the Mic the default on the Mini/Snow Leopard OS and get Windows 7 to recognize the Mic in the control panel? The Mic does show up in the task bar and allows me to configure it from there but if I go into the control panel to set it up it only lists the internal mic (Intel 82801Ba/Bam AC97 Audio Controllers).

Any advice would be very much appreciated.