Alert Sounds don't sound

After upgrading to OS 10.4.3 my alert sounds can no longer be heard. I checked Sound preferences (both Sound Effects and Ouput) and everything seems appropriately setup.
No test sound is played when a new alert sound is chosen. The Help button does not generate any help.
iTunes and QuickTime are audible as before. Feedback is provided when volume changes are made.
There are other posts about sounds and OS 10.4.3 recently so there may be something in common.

I am having a very similar trouble. My email alert sound stopped several days ago. Tonight I tried to fix it by going through the Sound control panel. I noticed that the "Play alerts and sound effects through:" pulldown was greyed out. I clicked on the Help icon, and a blank help window came up. I closed it and tried again, and the window wouldn't even come up.
The Garage Band fix didn't work. I haven't tried a PRAM reset, because I thought we didn't have to do that with OS X. I'll try it in a minute.
Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed a progressive degredation in my system, too. Simply opening a Finder window can set the beach ball spinning. Safari used to autofill commonly used blanks on forms, and it stopped doing that. Cookies have been disappearing too. I used to be able to turn on cookies long enough to get logged into my favorite web sites, and then turn the cookies off. Stored cookies would exist with my password data and I could browse my forums and shop without having the cookies turned on and accumulating unwanted ones. Now I find that I have to leave them on and constantly retype the password info.
Any chance that we might be looking at an OS X bug, or even worse- the first of the OS X viruses?

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