IMac audio troubles, unknown origin

Okay, just bought a G5 (2.1gHz with iSight camera, so I don't know what "revision" that falls under...
Working fine for three days, then I installed the iPod software. When opening iTunes, I opted to play some music. After a few songs, things started going haywire--audio first sounded like it was playing on a warped and/or slow record player, then quit playing altogether and went to white noise/static over the speakers. This now obnoxious noise seems to exist regardless of speaker volume. The only way to get this to go away is to restart the machine.
When it restarts, the light on the front comes on, and the cooling fan kicks into overdrive, but that's as far as it goes. Then, I hold the power button down to restart again, and all spins up fine. The audio problem does return after a fashion.
Thoughts?
Later,
K

Update: iTunes problem still occasional. I ran it for 3 hours, uploading and downloading songs from CD to the iPod all the while with no problem. My wife came home and uploaded a CD, and it went to static on her. It cleared up shortly after closing iTunes; she didn't have to restart the iMac. I'm at some point going to re-install iTunes off of the boot disk. Does anyone know if just that file is accessible on either of the two install disks that come with the iMac?
The iSight problem is a hardware issue. Took it to the local Apple store after trying everything I had read here to try to restart it. They jumped through the same hoops as I did with amazingly identical results. They'll replace the camera module as soon as I can afford to be without the Mac for 3 - 10 days, which won't be for a few weeks.
Later,
K

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