IMac + Sound = Help Me!

So I got a new 24" Aluminum High-End iMac 2 weeks ago. It doesn't freeze like other people have reported, but I have some another problems.
Sometimes when playing songs (mainly in iTunes) the music will be automatically paused for no reason. If I hit play/pause it continues where it left of... This I think is just a bug in iTunes + Leopard, but I would like to know if you guys think it's anything else.
My second problem is also sound related. When playing Civilization 4: Warlords I have been starting to hear a buzz coming from my left speaker (and only my left speaker). When I increase the volume, the buzz grows larger, when I mute the volume, the buzz also stops. The buzz goes away if I quit the game... it also goes away by it self after a few minutes. Is this a hardware problem or a software problem?
I should also state that I didn't have this buzzing problem until I used DivX Player to open a file and a LOUD buzzing sound came out of my speaker (both of them) when I tried to play the file Volume control's didn't help to lower the volume of the buzzing, although pausing did stop it. I have used DivX before (both on this iMac and others) but I have never gotten this problem. I have stopped using DivX Player for now, but this problem does exist. I would have to say that this is most probably a software problem because VLC can play all the files with not one hitch yet. But could this loud buzzing sound (that happened a with a few files in DivX) have damaged my speaker(s)?
Thanks for your help in advance!

I have a similar problem with DivX. I am convinced it is a software conflict.
I tested DivX files that I compressed myself (with a licensed version of the DivX Pro codec) on multiple machines. I played the files with VLC and DivX Player without any trouble. However, on my machine there is a horrible buzzing sound when I playback with the DivX Player. VLC is fine. I have reinstalled the entire DivX Pro package to no avail. So far this hasn't infected anything else.
[EDIT]
In addition, the DivX Web Player is unaffected. I can play streaming videos from stage6 without any trouble at all.
Message was edited by: stkelly

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