JTT --

I assume by now you have zapped the PRAM and exhaustively inspected all relevant settings. It sounds like it must be a SW problem because you can hear alerts and such. This implies that some application has logically captured the sound port and is preventing other applications from streaming data to it. Try hauling the whole Prefs folder to the desktop, as BBW suggested, so as to detemrine whether or not Prefs of SOME sort are causing the glitch.

It's time to back up all your document files. I smell a reinstallation coming...


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