No sound in iPhoto

The music will play in iTunes, it has not been moved, but there is absolutely no sound what so ever to any iTunes music that I select for background music. The music will play in iTunes, it will play when Imported to QT or iDVD but not in iPhoto. I have I have been working on this slide-show for about two weeks now and this happened just last night.
I have rebooted, Repaired Permissions, rebuilt the application, trashed the preferences, tried the Sample Music. etc. It's like I have mistakenly pressed a mute button. Is there such a button or am I overlooking something very simple? Thanks in advance.
JG

Well, it started working again just as mysteriously as it stopped working.
Cheers!

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