Audio failure on Solaris

Is there a known issue with audio on a Solaris SGD server? I've configured two similar setups, and audio works on the 32-bit Pentium system and not on the Sun X4200 system. In both cases, the application server is the SGD server. I've run through the debugging suggestions and attempted to find differences in the two SGD installations. Of course, one uses a 32-bit kernel and the other is 64-bit.
The tests I'm running are simple "cat > $AUDIODEV" and tests with realplay. The environment vars in both cases point to SGD entries, and modinfo shows the sgd entry, etc. It is as if the audio device is /dev/null. Multiple clients were tested.
Versions: Solaris 10/08 on the system that doesn't work, 5/08 on the system
that works. SGD 4.5. Both systems are Ray servers, and both were rebooted since installation of SGD and the enhancement module.

Do you have Perian from http://perian.org/
You should read this support page http://perian.org/#support in case you need to delete older codecs.

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I've noticed while trying out the Solaris 10 beta 72
that the audio playback quality took a major hit
since Solaris 9. I was hoping that this would go
away in the Solaris 10 release, but it's not the
case.
If I try to play an .mp3 file with mpg123 or even
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s perfect.
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please share the script...It doesn't work that way.
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