New Leopard Kills Aging Frog

Sorry for the above headline, but the frustration with Mac Mail (using MobileMe) and OS X v. 10.5.7 - the "new leopard" is driving me bonkers!
Since the recent update to OS X, there has been a complete loss of my long-standing incoming frog-like mail notification sound. Of course in the scheme of things, this is a relatively minor glitch after such an enormous download, but still I enjoyed the charming sound of the frog's tone heralding incoming e-mail messages. Now it's dead.
All the preferences are checked correctly, as others have suggested, but to no avail. The incoming frog mail sound has simply been silenced by the newest version of Leopard. It would appear all I can do now is hope that Apple will fix this bug.

Hello Ernie,
Well, just as I was to de-select IDLE to see if this would awaken the return of the incoming e-mail message alerting tone, I was stunned by yet another unexpected turn of events in my tale of the Leopard and the Frog. Without any modifications performed on my part, while checking Mail this morning, a sound announced that I had Mail in the InBox! It's exactly the erratic nature of this that's so baffling. Why all of a sudden, without any input from me, except I suppose checking and un-selecting certain preferences in an attempt to provide a fix, it now seems OK? In each case, I left every Mail Preference setting as it had been when there was tone ie set on IDLE in Advanced and in Mail Preferences General, I set it for One Minute retrievals. Well, OK I see this moment that I did change it here from Check for New Mail every one minute to every five minutes. That can't have caused this. Could it?
So, I will now simply sit and observe, as at least for now the frog and leopard are functioning harmoniously. Still, the fact that this behaviour is inconsistent reinforces other's ideas that a bug is causing this on and off business.
Cheers,
John
Thanks,
John

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