Hi Starkeeper,
have you installed midi yoke ( or some other type of virtual midi cable) I think AJ's using a different one nowadays.

best wishes
Rikki

p.s. of late, if i'm only using soundfonts, I'd been using my audigy nx2 soundcard which actually loads the soundfonts.
My new laptop had the option of some sort of Audigy software . It's still only a sigmatel soundcard, but has some of the audigy functions including being able to load soundfonts.