gigastudio stole all my midi ports

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Hi folks. I have a few little quirky issues with gigastudio 3
orchestra and I was wondering if y'all could help me out. First of all
here are my system specs.

asus p4c800-e mobo
winxp sp1
RME hdsp 9632 soundcard
60 gig 7200 rpm maxtor system drive
160 gig sata drive
2 gigs ram
pentium 4 3.2 ghz processor

First I installed cubase sx3 and everything worked fine as far as
setting up audio and midi and getting them to work. But then I
installed gigastudio and ran into problems. Seems giga grabbed all
available midi ports for itself including the ones for my hammerfall
card. And in cubase my hammerfall midi in ports had vanished and been
replaced with giga ports. So I couldn't do a dang thing with my
controller keyboard in either program since my card's midi had
"disappeared". I tried uninstalling the card's drivers and
reinstalling them. That solved the cubase problem but now giga won't
function properly because it can't install the drivers for the
hammerfall according to the diagnostic I ran on it. I tried
uninstalling everything and just putting giga on the computer by
itself. Same problem...no midi in from my card. Although I was able
to play giga's virtual keyboard with my mouse but not from my
controller keyboard. Have any of y'all had this problem?

I need to say here that I did have both programs working at one time.
But that was back when I had a soundblaster audigy in my machine in
addition to the hammerfall card and two different partitions on my
system drive. I suspect that the soundblaster was essentially acting
as a "dummy card" and gigastudio was grabbing it's midi ports and
leaving the hammerfall alone. But I didn't know it because I wasn't
using the soundblaster in my recording partition. Now that I decided to
ditch the soundblaster and run my computer strictly as a recording
machine I am having problems.