Apple Pro Speakers from G4 Cube with Mac mini

To listen music with my Mac mini, I used Apple Pro Speakers that originally came with the G4 Cube.
But since june 2010, my system (Mac OS X) does not recognize these speakers.
The error message (via command 'dmesg') is :
Couldn't alloc class "AppleUSBTrinityAudioDevice"

It's a problem with Mac OS X 10.6.4:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2467178
We are waiting a patch from Apple...

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