Is there a way to use Internal Mac Speakers with something stuck in the headphone jack?

A while ago, I broke a pair of headphones in the jack of my Macbook Pro. This means I can't use the external speakers either, and it's very annoying. It's now been a year, and I have been getting by with a combination of using Wifi2Hifi, a USB audio adaptor, and switching to Windows to use my speakers. Is there any way I can override the Mac software to make my speakers available to use like they are in Windows? I lost my USB adaptor a couple days ago, and I really don't want to wait for a new one to come in the mail if I can just get my internal speakers to work. I would prefer to use Mac because I have 12,000 songs in my itunes and my external Hard Drive is formatted to Mac, so when I want to watch the movies I have stored on it, I can't do it in Windows.
Also, I'm aware of the "Use Audio port for:" option, but I can't select this. I see the text, but there's no dropdown menu.

If you have Office 2004, it won't run on Lion. You have three options:
1. Upgrade to Office 2008 or 2011 for Mac
2. Download the free Office suite Libreoffice
3. Buy Apple's 'Numbers' (for spreadsheets), 'Pages' (for word processing) programs and/or 'Keynote' (for powerpoint) from the App store. Combined cost is still a lot cheaper than Office and they will read and export is all Office formats.
A fourth option, if you can't live without 2004 for some reason, would be to revert to Snow Leopard.

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