Sound routing craziness!

I'm running iChat 3.1.6 on a MacPro with OSX 10.4.8 and I'm using an external FW iSight.
I've got some headphones plugged in to the front (Headphone) jack on the Mac Pro, and some speakers plugged into the back (Line Out) jack. When I start into an AV chat, the audio from my chat session comes through the Headphones, but the rest of the sounds on my Mac (eg. the speaker level clicks) come out of the speakers. I've tried changing the settings in System Prefs, but even when I make sure everything is set to "Line Out" I still have the same situation.
Any ideas?

Hi Noah,
This has been a problem since at least my G4/1Ghz Dual Mirrored Doors tower, and in fact is probably older.
I have exactly the same problem.
I tend to run my external speakers from the headphone socket at the from and just change to Headphones when I need to.
The Headphone socket does not disconnect the Line Out connector at the back of the machine. I am sure if it did people would still want it to work the other way.
The option is to deselect the Line Out in the System Preferences > Sound.
4:02 PM Saturday; January 13, 2007

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