No sound in one user account

Friend has no sound in one user account, have tried everything i know with no affect dumped audio.devicesettings.plist, tried the garageband trick, tried the midisetup trick now run out of idea's
Enybody come accross this before.
Cheers
Tony

Tony
Have you tried: No sound from some applications, but system alert sounds play (Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4)?
;~)

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