Sound is choppy

Since installing OS 10.5 and subsequently updating to 10.5.1 I have experienced choppy sound in all applications. VLC, DVD Player, Windows Media Player, iTunes, everything. And those apps that use sound skip because of the sound loading problem as well. I've repaired permissions, updated all that I can, restarted, cleared more HD space, etc. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Hi,
This has happened to me, too, but not all the time. Originally, I thought that I had inadvertently caused it when I set QuickTime's "Movie Download Cache Size" to zero in System Preferences, but the choppiness is happening to me now, and I reset the QuickTime settings about a week ago. I also think that on one occurrence of the choppy sound, Spotlight was using a lot of CPU cycles to index my drive, but that's not happening now, either. If I find out anything more useful to control and/or cure this problem, I'll post back.
Ken

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