Feisty problems

[Wulfy]

I recently upgraded my Edgy box to Feisty (i386) and everything seemed 
to work OK.  Apart from sound.

I found that while I could play video files (and DVDs) other sounds just 
didn't happen.  I changed to oss from alsa and everything then worked 
for a time.

I then hit problems with Kaffeine - it just started saying it couldn't 
open certain files - avi and ogg were the ones I tried. So I moved to 
mplayer to play my videos.

I had the bright idea of trying again with alsa...  no sound.  Then I 
saw "threaded open sound system" as an option...  woohoo!  I could have 
my sound and get multiple sound sources working again!  Or so I thought.

When I hit "apply" the sound system restarted..  again and again and 
again.  I restarted X, thinking that might fix the problem.  No change.

I'm at a loss as to how to get my sound back.  Can anyone help?

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ running the 32-bit version of Feisty 
Fawn Kubuntu upgraded from Edgy.

High Definition Audio/AC'97 Host Controller

Linux localhost 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 
i686 GNU/Linux

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