Music from line-out, but effects from internal speakers?

Why is it that I have line-out selected as my output source for audio, and music can be played through it, but for a week now, sound effects like those from mail, are coming from the internal speakers?
I guess it could be a cool feature if it was something you could control, but this is definitely a bug as it is now. Can someone offer me a suggestion for this issue? Switching audio output and then back doesn't work (although it has worked for me in the past with 10.4).

I am experiencing the same problem. About a week ago (I didn't install any updates or anything) all my sound effects (mail, ichat, etc) started coming through the internal speakers even though I have my soundsticks selected for all output.
I've repaired permissions, rebooted, and tried all sorts of configurations in the sound portion of system preferences to no avail.
I'm running 10.5.2 on a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 24"iMac with 3G of RAM.
Any help much appreciated.

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