Reply to Akai MPD24 and Ableton Live 8? Anyone got this working

I've finally found a bit of time to get my head around Ableton, and to try to get my Midi controllers working with it.

The Oxygen 8 was easy to do, but I can't seem to get the MPD working ... I'm currently only using one at a time so it shouldn't be a device clash.

There seem to be some interned community rumours of a need to upgrade the MPD24 firmware to 1.10 as there was some strangeness as to the messages being sent out?

A little help?