Bringing this one back to see if anything has improved...
I submitted my problem report, and Cakewalk is asking for me to call their tech support number. With them being on the east coast, and the hours of my work, it is difficult to get a chance to call. Cakewalk says it's a setting or configuration issue.
On a side-yet-related note, I have my PCIe Firewire card installed, and it did not help at all. Despite being a TI chipset, it has offered no increased performance or the ability to obtain smaller ASIO latencies. The buffer size seems best at 96 (set via MixControl, and roundtrip is 7.9ms. No matter if running on the PCIe card or the motherboard's Firewire port, these settings offer the cleanest and most-stable performance. I guess the LSI chipset on the Asus P5Q is fairly compatible with the Focusrites.
Iceaddiction, have you made any progress?