Changing all alert sounds

I have a Macbook Pro 13 with OSX 10.6.8. Can I change each of the alert sounds? I changed the alert sound in system preferences but the volume alert sound stayed the same.
Thanks

Oh, ok. Then search around macupdate to see if you can find a utility that assigns sounds to sytem events. Such things have been around since OS9 so there must be one or more for OSX. Whether they are Lion compatible is another story.
As for the beep sound when you change the volume, I never heard anyone complain about that The general user-level answer is no you cannot change that. The hacker answer is, it's your machine you can hack it any way you please. Hint, it's a aiff sound file buried in the system somewhere and referenced by the sound preferences. But if you change it (a) it is not clear who else might be using it since it is not in the sound preferences itself and (b) it will only be clobbered when some future apple update comes along to update the code containing that aiff. So bottom line, forget about it.
[I know where it is -- I looked out of curiosity as a result of your post -- but I'll refrain from posting its location on these forums.]

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Pay particular attention to red's information here:
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Sometimes my alert messages just stop working. They seem to work one minute, then they stop. Alert messages would include email notifications and txt message pings. When they are not working, I can go into Settings>Sounds>Text Tone, and all of the options will simply result in a vibration and no sound.
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