Audio Only Works With Headphones

So here is a weird one, when I'm in a video or audio chat, I can only hear the other person if I"m wearing headphones. I can hear everything right up until the chat begins even the vwoom sound as the other person accepts the invitation. If I put my ear next to the "right" internal speaker, I can barely hear someone talking but as soon I plug my head phones in I can hear perfectly. What's the story here?

Hi,
I would try the "Run the Combo" Trick.
Download and Install the Combo version of 10.5.6 over the top of what you have.
This often correct issues like this that are hard to find.
If this does not work I would then delete com.apple.ichat.plist
This holds the camera and Mic info and the volume settings (But normally the Speech volume of the Alerts in iChat Preferences > Alerts)
However deleting this is fairly destructive as things go for iChat.
You lose any setting you have made in the Preferences :- Font choice, Font Colour, Balloon/Text IM background colour, Saved Transripts, tabbed Chats, Alerts you have set other than defaults, Menu Bar Icon (it's sub sections about Logging off fully on Quit and changing to Available on Launch)
You also Lose Saved Status Messages.
I would use this as a Last Resort.
8:16 PM Tuesday; February 17, 2009

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