Sound preference default is wrong

I just upgraded to snow leopard. now every time I turn on my mac pro. the sound output defaults to an old program call "CD spin doctor capture support". I delete this program but the preference is still there. Apple support was no help. how can I get the machine to default to "audio Line o

I think that's why I asked what you did. If you deleted the plists but the selection for CD Spin doctor came back then I don't think you removed all of what CD Spin doctor installed. So now you should go look in the following places to see if there are any names resembling CD Spin doctor.
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartupItems
~/Library/LaunchAgents
~/Library/LaunchDaemons
your login items

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