10.5.2 - New Mail Sound Still Not Working

Just installed 10.5.2 and the issue that discussed in this locked thread has still not been resolved.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5934092#5934092

Just to add my empathys .... every day I dream longingly of the good old Tiger days when my computer just worked and I could feel the joy of having abandoned Microsoft years ago. Now that I run what is clearly Microsoft Leopard (hey, Apple had to get someone to bang together an operating system while they were busy drooling over their own iPhone and all the $$$$ it has created, and this cat has MS pawprints all over it) Im beginning to wonder whether its time to move to Linux.

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