Mail 5.0: No Sound Effects

Hello!
Since installing Lion, Mail 5.0 keeps dropping it's sound effects. 
They come back for a short while once I "repair disk permissions" (only works with Mail closed down).
All sound boxes are checked.
Anyone have a perminant fix? 
If not, any idea if Apple knows of the issue... or is currently working on a fix?
How does one relay an issue like this to Apple?  Is there a "bug report" link that I am missing?
Thanks in advance...
Cheers!

Same problem here, I've tried everything, creating new account, re-installing... All the suggestions that the Geniuses from Apple gave me and they ended up telling me that this is a bug which they are aware and are working on it... I still find it so weird that it happens with some Macs but others are just fine.
You can report it here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
But this has been dragging for a long time so I don't know when it's going to get fixed.

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