Audio out on mac pro

hi there, i really hope that someone can help me with this issue that i'm experiencing.
My normal audio set up for my mac pro is to have the sound going into a denon hifi via the line out on the mack of the mac. on occasion i need to use headphones and so i plug them into the front port.
on my previous mac, a powermac G5, the sound system prefs automatically detected the headphones and changed the output to those when they are plugged in. in the same way when i unplugged the headphones the sound reverted back to the hifi without me having to change anything.
this is not the case with my new machine. i have to manually change the sound output in system prefs which is starting to get quite tedious. at the moment i've also got a strange situation where my sound is coming out of the hifi via line out, but the 'volume change' sound (the sort of click when you change volume on the keyboard) is coming out of the built in speaker of the mac pro.
not sure if i'm doing something wrong or what but if anyone has any ideas i'd be really grateful.

Apple with Audio supports Apogee, so it would be nice to looking into this, shouldn't be like this but its just the way it is, however this baby does the trick.
http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/duet.php
Fr.BlayZay.,

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