Quicktime Broadcaster and Leopard - no audio

I use Quicktime Broadcaster a few times a week for a contract I have. Everything worked fine as of Friday morning. After the upgrade to Leopard, I noticed that the app would no longer encode the audio of video. This only occurs on a MacBook Pro. An old PowerBook works sort of OK, but not perfect, have some other issue as well. I booted into a back-up of my previous set-up, and all works as it should.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I have looked everywhere, and do not see any errors in the logs to help troubleshoot. All settings look OK. I can record audio with Audacity, but not Quicktime Broadcaster.

This does not seem to work for the live stream, only the locally archived stream has the audio. Am I missing something? A setting I am unaware of?

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