Apple Modem Busy Signal

I am using a fax program (Pagesender by Smile Software) and run into problems with recognition of a busy signal. It seems they are not being recognized and the program continues to attempt to connect. The support people for Pagesender state that it is the Apple Internal Modem that does not recognize a busy signal and recommend buying an external USB modem. I find it hard to believe that the Apple Modem does not recognize a busy signal. Is this true? If so, is there a fix? Is there a way to test the Apple Modem?

It is more than a busy signal, I think. I am having the same problem - I try to send a fax and something goes wrong, busy signal, no answer, whatever. If I delete the job and try to start over, the modem is reported as unavailable. I downloaded ZTERM to see if I could regress to 1991 and start controlling the modem with stone age Hayes AT commands, but it too reported that the modem port was unavailable.
There are hardware diags on one of the OS disks, but that won't do much good since the modem will work at least once. It takes some sort of software failure in the OS to trigger this condition. That is, the modem is probably fine but the kernel software running it is broken. It disappears at the lowest level - the port disappears - but only after it is used once and fails to connect.
There us no option to hang up the modem in the status icon, and I have not been able to get the modem speaker turned on either. If I can't hear what it is doing it makes it much harder to troubleshoot, but the thing just ignores the settings.
Not to get on the soap box too much, but these rocket surgeons need to stop worrying about what color the next iPod will be and start paying attention to what they are doing in their core business. Having to reboot to get the modem back if a fax number is busy is asinine. I haven't had to do that in Windblows since at least version 3.11, if then. This OS is deteriorating with each new release.
My gut tells me that they just don't care enough about the iMac G5 user base to test their software against that platform. The sound is broken, the modem is broken, the Firewire interface can't capture DVI without corrupting the hard disk, and mine has required six rebuilds just to get Tiger running even this badly. I used to think Macs "just worked" and Windblows "just didn't". Now that relationship is reversing - it is my 64-bit XP that "just works" and my 64-bit OS X that "just doesn't work".

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