Connect Macbook to Panasonic Plasma TV

Hello,
I bought two cables for my macbook (1st gen), a minitoslink cable to toslink cable and a rca (red, yellow) to 3.5mm (headphones jack), and neither of them output sound. i do have the mini dvi to dvi cable to the video outputs find on the tv but the sound is a different matter. does anyone know exactly what to use or configure on the macbook/television? i really need help on this because i keep buying cables that dont work. thanks for helping.
Chad

I have a panasonic plasma also (TCP42S1) & macbook. Have the miniDVI to HDMI & HDMI cable in to the "HDMI 1" input of the plasma. But that's just the video, works fine. Audio? Could do the audio to another "input" of the plasma.
Need to somehow get the audio out of the macbook incorporated with the video from the MiniDVI out. Monoprice sells this "Mini Displayport Male and USB Male Audio to HDMI Female Converting Adapter" ??

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