All sounds fail to play

Hello,
All of my sounds will fail to play until a reboot of the phone. This includes Pandora, music on the SD Card, built in ringtones, alarms, etc. This did not start happening until about 2 weeks ago when an update was pushed. This is a big issue being I use my phone for everything. (Email, Text, Alarm Clock, etc) What is the fix for this?
Android version 2.3.4
Build Number 4.5.1_57_DX8-51

My phone started having sound issues in mid-April. I stopped by the corporate store and they looked through my apps. Since I was still having the problems I was able to initiate a warranty replacement. I have had it happen again a couple of times with the new phone also. I was told that it was most probably an app causing the issue. I downloaded a very limited amount of apps and kept track of which apps as well as any issues. It has happened twice since but not in any close proximity of time to when an app was downloaded. Then this week a co-worker brought me her X complaining of the same issue. She told me she hasn't downloaded ANY apps in months.
It would be great to have a resolution, the only suggestion I received since was that it might be an up that had an update or an app that isn't playing nicely with the others!

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
à
SOFTWARE à
Microsoft à
Windows à
                                    CurrentVersion
à
MMDevices à
Audio à
Render à
{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} à
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(value type is REG_DWORD) to 1 (one) instead of 0 (zero).
INCASE YOU DON'T FIND THE ABOVE MENTIONED KEY UNDER fxproperties,
PLEASE CREATE IT BY YOURSELF. (COPY & PASTE
{1da5d803-d492-4edd-8c23-e0c0ffee7f0e},5
TYPE
IS REG_DWORD AND PUT VALUE 1
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