I may be wrong but I believe the Viking Unit uses
an optoisolator circuit and a non-polarizing capacitor across the lines.

NEC strongly recomends that there be no half-taps of any kind in front of the equipment.

When you changed to the B style CO card that card has circuitry that basically listens for the ring voltage and then listens for the FSK tones for the caller-id.

The combined capacitance and lower resitance of the two may be causing a premature ring trip.

Unfortunatly you may have to add an ECR card to the NEC to get ringing over paging.


DJ