External speakers not muting on headphone plug-in

I have a dual 2.5ghz PPC G5 with external speakers plugged in the back. Sometimes I like to get into the zone and plug in my headphones to listen to music. The problem is, the external speakers don't mute when I plug in my headphones to the front headphone jack. There isn't an option in the Sound Sys. Prefs either.
I swear this used to work on an older Mac or OS (maybe 9 or lower).
Can't this be included in an update to either automatically mute when the headphones are plugged in, or added as an option in the Sound Sys. Prefs?

I went and downloaded this little program to get that functionality back:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/
The only somewhat not quite right problem I have is that if you are running certain sound programs, such as Audacity, the switching isn't automatic, you still have to go to the program's preference and manually change output to the headphones. But for Finder and iTunes it works fine.
Francine
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