The department's tech support people installed a new kernel on my box sometime over the weekend, so when I sat down to work on Monday morning, no sound came out. I have spent the last three days iterating with the tech people to get the problem fixed. Finally, they just threw up their hands and decided to roll back the kernel to the previous version. I'm annoyed that I'm being used a guinea pig for their experimental updates, but I'm grateful that we were able to fix it and now...I can listen to music...
::floats away, smiling::