Dropping sound in text chats

For a few months my iChat has been dropping sound in text chats. The new message, message sent, etc. sounds are dropping (or being sent to some unknown output device). I can't figure out where/how to fix this...and it's getting worse.
Now when iChat tries to make a sound and iTunes is playing BOTH will crash! This is INCREDIBLY annoying. There is also a popping or clicking going on...through the speakers.
Console:
Oct 20 12:42:16 BigMac crashdump[462]: coreaudiod crashed
Oct 20 12:42:18 BigMac crashdump[462]: crash report written to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/coreaudiod.crash.log
Oct 20 12:42:21 BigMac crashdump[461]: iChat crashed
Oct 20 12:42:22 BigMac crashdump[464]: iTunes crashed
Any ideas?

Hi Demetrios,
Ok there will be more info in Console
Go to the Logs icon top left.
USe the Reveal Triangle on ~/Library/logs
Open the Crash Log
Open the iTunes and iChat Crash logs.
See if there is any similarities in the info contained in them. Thread 1 and Binary Images are the place to look.
It looks like you should also look at the CoreAudio crash log. It looks like this is where the problem lies.
This may be sorted by resetting the Micorphone choice in System Preferneces > Sound > Input tab and the Volume setting in the same Preference paene but > Sound Effect tab (for Alerts).
You may have to delete com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist
This is found in Hard drive/Library/Preferences
This is the Library you see when you can see the Applications folder, the System Folder and Users folder when you click on your Hard drive icon or use a Finder window to navigate to it.
The computer may need to be restarted after this.
Ralph

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