Getting Audio from Macbook to Westinghouse TV

I have a Westinghouse LCD 32" Flat Screen TV (Model # SK-32H240S), and I am trying to hook my Macbook up to the TV to watch videos from my laptop. I have an HDMI cable and the video works perfectly; however, I cannot get the audio to come through for the life of me. I bought a standard stereo audio cable (3.5mm to 2 RCAs), which I ran from the headphone jack on the Macbook to the audio ports on the back of the TV. I tried every audio port available, and could not get sound to come through with any of them. I went into the settings on the TV and told it that the device using the HDMI input was a PC. Still got nothing. Can anyone help???

These are probably silly questions, but I tend to go from easy solution to more difficult.
1. Is the volume on the Mac turned up?
2. Have you tried you're output jack with a pair of headphones to verify the port is working?
3. Make sure you are using the headphone port and not the microphone port?
4. Check System Preferences>Sound>Output and see what you have listed there.
5. If you have one of the later MacBooks with the headphone/microphone combo port, you may need a different cable.
Adam

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