Can't rip MP3s

Last week I bought a new harddrive to replace my old IMB Deskstar (deathstar). After hours of installing drivers and software that I needed, I proceded to start ripping a new cd I just bought (putting the cd in the drive when I want to listen to it is just too time consuming.) On my old system I used CDex, and it worked great. Not a single jitter error on anything I ever did. Now, however, I can't even rip a single file with it. The dB level is at -96 and the file it creates is about the size it should be, except it has no sound. I tried ripping it to WAV, and all I got were ten 31k files in my music folder. Windows Media player has no problem ripping the music to .wma, but I don't use media player for anything but video. I've got the most recent downloadable version of LAME, and I've been able to decode MP3 to WAV, and back. I'm using XP Pro and I've updated all the critical service packs, I don't suppose Microsoft slipped one in there that disabled MP3 ripping? Any ideas?

The program I'm using is CDex, which worked fine until I redid my system. I've got a Sony 16x DVD-ROM and a Ricoh RW7200A, both of which worked fine before, both of which will record music in Windows Media Player, but neither one works now for ripping MP3s.

Everything in my system is reading fine except that for some reason my drives are listed as SCSI. Weird, they're internal....