Post-Lightning Strike: No Sound

I have a 5 year old 15" MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo). We had a tree behind our house struck by lightning, and we were close enough that several things in our house got fried: TV, washing machine, my 23" monitor, the 85 watt power supply for my laptop, and curiously, it looks like my sound is dead. Both the power supply and monitor were connected to the laptop in question which was asleep at the time.
The volume icon in the menu bar is grayed out. If I do anything with the volume/mute buttons, it shows full volume and a circle with a slash through it. If I open Preferences/Sound/Output, it doesn't show speakers, just optical digital-out port.
So my question is, for all you hardware experts, have you ever seen something like this where the sound is blown but the rest of the system seems OK? Is the sound integrated into the system board, or can it be replaced seperately? I haven't noticed any other problems with the system, and it has been rebooted since the surge. Unfortunately my house is in major disarray and can't be lived in with a giant hole in the roof and water damage, so it's going to be several days before I can dig out my Tech Tools disc.
Any thoughts are appreciated, and thanks in advance!

One additional bit of info: I just did a Permissions repair and a Verify Disk, the Verify seemed fine. The permisions repair showed something interesting, which I think is not related, but you never know:
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Group differs on “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”; should be 80; group is 0.
Repaired “Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf.plist”
Warning: SUID file “System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent” has been modified and will not be repaired.
Permissions repair complete
Based on another post that I saw after I posted this, I'm going to do a PRAM and SMC reset shortly, we'll see what happens.

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