Audio Systems: wiring stereo and surround sound, sound portion, sony surround sound

Question
Hello Mark
I've recently remodeled my home and pulled wire for roughly 12 sets of speakers, so I've got a bunch of wires sitting behind my stereo cabinet.  I've bought 2 6-way speaker selection boxes that I've go them wired into.  now the problem I'm having

I have the following gear to set-up.
HDTV, cablebox, DVD/tape player, reveiver, phono, Sony surround sound (which has a tuner in it), and CD player

my question is how to get the right wiring for the stereo and the surround sound.  I currenlty have both the receiver and the surround sound speaker outputs going to both of the 6-way boxes inputs; this is not working.   the instructions for the surround sound show wiring the dvd player into the surround sound, I'm sure I should put them into the receiver,

I'm not sure how to attach the surround sound to the receiver, since the surround sound has a tuner in it as well.  (I have another older surround sound that does not have a tuner it it, I may need to use it.)  I'm confused on where to run the speaker outputs from the surround sound

I hope you can understand,  appreciate your help  

Answer
it sounds like the main problem you're having is that the surround sound portion was designed to be it's own thing.  if its one of those "canned, system in a box" kinda things that has all the speakers and a crumby reciever all together, you should just use the speakers and not the reciever portion that came with it.  Everything should just hook the new new reciever only.  
if you can provide me with model numbers that may help but ultimatly you should only have 1 reciever and abandon the reciever piece of the sony system.