No sound in Flash for IE or Firefox

I've been looking for a solution to this for a few days.
First, some background:
A week or two ago, I noticed that sometimes the sound would
not play during YouTube videos. If I refreshed the page, the sound
would come back. However, a few days ago, the sound just died
totally. IE will not work, Firefox will not work. YouTube will not
work, Google Video will not work. No sound at all. Dead as a
doornail.
I've read some posts related to this on this forum, and have
seen that many many people have experienced this. I've tried all of
the "Eureka!" fixes I came across, to no avail.
For what it's worth, I'm using Windows XP, SP2. My preferred
browser is Firefox.
Here's what I've tried so far, in no particular order:
1. Uninstalling Flash and installing the newest version
2. I went to the control panel under Quicktime
preferences>>audio tab>>Default music synthesizer. I
changed this from 'quicktime music synth.' to 'general midi'
3. Entering the registry fixes regarding msacm32.drv and
others
4. Made sure msacm32.drv actually exists and is valid
5. Installed the newest full K-Lite code pack and ran the
Code Tweak Tool
6. Made sure my speakers were plugged into the correct line
in jack
7. Using System Restore to go back to a point before the
problem started
8. Shut down firewall and anti-virus to see if they were
blocking some Flash component
9. Change the Realtek driver's environment setting to "Room"
10. Made sure the "Windows Audio Service" was started.
11. In Windows Media Player, changed the default sound device
to specify my sound card
12. Went to the Flash Global Storage Settings panel but the
Third Party Flash Content was already checked.
13. Change the storage space to "unlimited" in #12's settings
Edited to add: I just created a new user account and Flash
sound DOES work in this new account. What the heck?
I'm at a loss. Any ideas about what's going on?

perhaps you could have the same problem as me, I also did all
that and nothing worked. The problem, in my case, was a tool called
CMI Audio Config, this is in the control panel. the thing is that
this tool only plays the sounds from web pages when you activate
the option of 6 speakers and rotate them cause sound only comes out
from the CENTRAL speaker. so rotate them until you got the sound. I
hope this helps you =)

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I LC_ALL=C aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
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