After Effects 5.5 rendering audio issues

I am using After Effects 5.5. I am using Mac OS X snow leopard 10.6.8. I was trying to render but was having problems with the audio. I installed QT 7 but the problem is still happening with message 'After Effects Error: Opening sound component -2166.' Help?! Has this ever happened to anyone?

Check, whether you have installed some specific voice-over or voice messaging software or something like an external headset/ microphone. this looks like a hardware driver/ CoDec error. Anything beyond that will require much more details on what's involved in your comp and render settings...
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