As soon as I return to this site next week I will try everything listed here as I think it might work because I dont specifically remember doing some of the things everybody suggested. I would do it remotely but its kind of hard when the card itself is on my truck. -_-

And I am trying NOT to use MCI. I dont want to have to plug a cable into the cpu card to go 6 inches to the im-16. according to the manual the default config doesnt use MCI and that MCI is optional. Am I misunderstanding what I want to do?