alsactl store doesn't work

[Brian Baker]

Using  Dapper, when I boot into Gnome, Master and PCM are muted in the
alsamixer.  Tried unmuting both by running alsamixer in terminal (this
gets sound working) then "sudo alsactl store" On the next reboot Master
and PCM are again muted.
However starting in KDE no sound problems. I do not care much for KDE
and would prefer using Gnome but this is starting to get irritating.
Am I the only one having this problem?