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I am trying to notate a basic 3 over 4 rhythm, but the playback feature is making me think I don't know what I am doing. Notation problems aside, is the following two measures, rhythmically enharmonic? 
Basically, am I wrong to think that a triplet (or tuplet) can be subdivided by 16th's and 32nds?
Thank you!
Leaving aside your misprint - the tuplet number in your second bar should be a 4 of course - yes they're both OK.
In my example below, A, B and C are all acceptable. I prefer C. Some would say the modern trend is to favour A.
Yes, you can subdivide notes in a tuplet. And it can get even more complicated than D if you want, with tuplets inside tuplets. Today's 'modern classical' composers regularly come up with much worse than E!
Yes, those two measures are rhythmically equivalent. Reasonable cheat, eh?
Your second measure has a huge notation problem that obscures readability, though: that tuplet bracket is supposed to say 4 (for quadruplet) instead of 3 (for triplet). I think my brain automatically corrected it at first glance, so I didn't initially notice this egregious error until it was almost too late. This error is so bad that I'm surprised that the tuplet plays back properly. Did you purposefully change the 4 to a 3?
