Big Bang games sound disappeared....

have no idea how it happened, but all of sudden the sounds from the Big Bang games disappeared. System sound functioning normally, sound with video and itunes normal, and tried another game and it was fine. I deleted the Big Bang games, and reinstalled from the original install CD and same problem. did a compare on the Audio folders in both root/Library and user/Library and seem okay. this is not an issue to spend too much time on obviously, but was curious if anyone had any clues as to where I should look next to find a possible cause/solution.
thanks!

I have the 17" iMac Intel CD with 1.5 GB RAM and the usual 128 MB Vid Card. Everything seems to be working just great on the machine. Except, the problem I have had with the BBBG is that in Chess and Checkers, the game will always freeze at some point. The menu items, sound and the like all continue to play on but I cannot drag and drop the pieces any longer and they no longer light up when pointed to so the game is, essentially, unplayable. Sometimes it happens after a few initial moves and other times well into the game. So far I have only noticed this on Chess and Checkers and not the other games. This happens on both 10.4.4 and 10.4.5 (It also happens on the included OEM version of BBBG as well as the vendor's online download). I never have any other window/app open during the game. I have contacted the vendor who claims never to have heard about this. I supplied additional info that they requested about 2 weeks ago and never heard back from them. I would say the vendor is very much the monkey in this case and am very unhappy with the game performance and their support.
17" iMac Intel CD   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  
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