Mail silent since 10.5.6 (corrupted pref file?)

Hi there,
since upgrading to OS X 10.5.6, my mail.app no longer produces any sounds upon receiving or sending email - even the "swoosh" when sending mail is gone. (And yes - the corresponding preferences box is ticked, so there should be noise.)
Funnily enough, mail.app still produces sounds in a "guest" account on my Mac, so my guess is "preference file corruption".
Any suggestions on how to deal with this?
Kind regards from Berlin,
jan

I am quite certain that I had the sound effects check box in system preferences activated prior to the 10.5.6 upgrade as I had the empty trash sounds activated. After the upgrade, something during the install process unselected this check box in system preferences because I noticed I had lost the internal Mail sounds as well as the sound for emptying the trash. When I checked preferences in Mail the check box for "play sounds in mail" was still checked but there were no more sounds. It seems odd to me that you now have to go to two different places to turn on the sound feature in Mail whereas before it was only one checkbox. How is it fixing a bug by requiring two steps instead of one? Minor point, but it is rather confusing and convoluted.

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