Mac OS X Leopard volume messed up

Periodically, the volume on my Mac OS X will just cease to function. When I click the volume up/down buttons on the keyboard, nothing works. It isn't muted (there are still sound curves outside of the megaphone icon that pops up on the screen), but sound still refuses to play. Whenever it does this, there is a circle with a slash through it beneath the volume-dots. Sometimes when it happens, whatever I'm listening to will stutter for awhile and then right itself....but sometimes even pressing the up/down buttons have no effect and sound stops playing all together. This problem tends to occur whenever I unplug my earphones from my laptop. What's going on, and how can I remedy the situation?

Abbey S wrote:
Periodically, the volume on my Mac OS X will just cease to function. When I click the volume up/down buttons on the keyboard, nothing works. It isn't muted (there are still sound curves outside of the megaphone icon that pops up on the screen), but sound still refuses to play. Whenever it does this, there is a circle with a slash through it beneath the volume-dots. Sometimes when it happens, whatever I'm listening to will stutter for awhile and then right itself....but sometimes even pressing the up/down buttons have no effect and sound stops playing all together. This problem tends to occur whenever I unplug my earphones from my laptop. What's going on, and how can I remedy the situation?
It could be a dirty switch in the output jack.
Open System Prefs->Sound and look at output as you plug/unplug your headphones.
The Name should change from Headphones to Internal Speakers.
Usually plugging in and out a few times fixes things.

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"Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
I verified my Macintosh HD disk on Disk utility and then tried to repair it, but I am unable to click the repair button.
It says it's not available because the startup disk is selected.
I don't know what to do or how to go about both these problems.
Please, any suggestions?

This message appears every time I try to partition my disk:
"Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant again."
I verified my Macintosh HD disk on Disk utility and then tried to repair it, but I am unable to click the repair button.
It says it's not available because the startup disk is selected.
I don't know what to do or how to go about both these problems.
Please, any suggestions?

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I installed Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.3 And now my Java is not working,what can I do to fix's this?

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