Dead Internal Speakers

I've read other posts about dead internal speakers on eMac. My wife's computer has same problem-- eMac 1G 10.3.9 where internal speakers don't work but headphones do work (haven't tried external speakers). In system prefs, there is no option for selecting anything other than "headphones" even when the headphones are not plugged in. I don't know if our kids were blasting iTunes or if they just died. So far I've trashed the soundpref file and restarted (while resetting PRAM), but to no avail.
I posted this topic as I don't believe anyone ever found a solution (or diagnosed the likely problem). Past suggestions have been to use the headphones or get external speakers. Bummer as we need external sound and don't want anymore office clutter.
Thanks.

I wanted to add this other piece of info:
I opened the Sound option in system preferences and selected the Output option. At that option, nothing changes in the Output option when I plug in or unplug headphones into the headphone jack. The headphones do work when plugged-in.
I did the same on my children's iMac CRT running same version of X (Panther) and noticed the output device name toggles between "internal speakers" and "headphones" as you plug the headphone jack in/out.
This makes me wonder if the female jack on the eMac is somehow stuck/defective. Anyone w/ info. on how to further troubleshoot this?

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