Sonar 8 problem recording MIDI electronic drums - solved

A while back I was having issues recording e drums in Sonar 7. The drummer would have a good take, and playback would be way off timing. I wasn’t using input monitoring, so I had the latency settings set pretty high to avoid clicks and pops. I searched the forum and found out that some suggested lowering the audio latency setting, while recording. It didn’t make sense to me, but I tried it and it worked. I just installed Sonar 8 today. I now have this same problem in Sonar 8 no matter what my latency setting is. I can open the same project in Sonar 7 with the same settings and record OK. Anyone have any thoughts? I hope I don’t have to record all of my drums in Sonar 7 first.

The gear used for this is a Hart Pro edrum kit and a Roland TD-12. The MIDI signal is going into a RME HDSP 9652 sound card. The computer is a Studio Cat Intel Quad Core with 4 gigs of ram and 4 hard drives. The drums are mapped to BFD 2.