Questions on sensors in Autonomous

[Morgeno]

Hi everyone,
I'm morgeno, head autonomous programmer for team 2337. I'm trying to get hot goal code working before our next competition, but we're having a bit of a problem. For some reason the sensor we're using reports as a button through the custom driver station our team has set up, and it won't work when autonomous is enabled. I've probed in autonomousIndependant and Periodic Tasks but neither of them report any change in the "button" during auton.

Are all joysticks completely disabled when autonomous is running?

If not, do you have any idea why it wouldn't report?

I can post screen shots of the code in question later.

Thanks,

Morgeno