Soundbooth CS4 on Mac Snow Leopard breaks MS RDC Sound.

Question

After upgrading from Trial to Full version the Soundbooth software installs additional codecs and breaks sound playback from Microsoft Remote Desktop Control application.
After updating the sound from RDC plays with a choppy echo sound after each noise that the remote desktop machine makes.
To resolve this I had to get rid of the following files.
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist
/Library/Preferences/Audio/com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist
Uninstalling Soundbooth and using the uninstall additional codecs in Application/Utilities does not clean up these files.
The contents of /Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>com.apple.audio.AggregateDevice.com.adobe.medialayer.coreaudiohost:Soundbooth 2.0</key>
        <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>Soundbooth 2.0</string>
                <key>private</key>
                <integer>0</integer>
                <key>subdevices</key>
                <array/>
                <key>uid</key>
                <string>com.adobe.medialayer.coreaudiohost:Soundbooth 2.0</string>
        </dict>
        <key>com.apple.audio.CoreAudio.AggregateDeviceUIDList</key>
        <array>
                <string>com.adobe.medialayer.coreaudiohost:Soundbooth 2.0</string>
        </array>
</dict>
</plist>
The file com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist makes references to:
<key>com.adobe.medialayer.coreaudiohost:Soundbooth 2.0</key>
<dict>
<key>controls</key>
<array/>
</dict>
It could be that all that needs to be done is clean up the references and remove the com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist file.  I find it rather strange that the Adobe uninstallers do not clean up their messes.
I would be delighted if there was a work around to this problem.  This took a lot of time to figure out where the problem was in the system.  Well hope it helps someone at least if they come across this error as well, googling was no help.
If anyone has a clean Mac OS X 10.6.2 install, could they attach these files to this thread so I know what is supposed to be here instead of this extra Adobe stuff?

Answer 1

Like I said, it is hard to be certain.
As far as I am aware, issues with Snow Leopard are specific to font anomalies in 10.6.7, and the fact that you cannot use the OS's printing system to produce PDFs via File > Print from Adobe applications. Do you have a link or citation for the issues you read online?
So, reasons to suspect Adobe: running the Adobe installer triggered the problem; Adobe programs crash and they crash in Adobe code;
Reasons to suspect Apple: it's not a single program crashing; the crashes don't seem to make sense; crashes happen for both CS4 and CS5; crashes affected non-Adobe programs (that is what you meant by "all my programs," right?).
So, my intuition is you should try an OS reinstall.
Though even if the root problem is the OS, Adobe probably has some blame here -- Adobe's programs should not crash. So you can certainly take it up with Adobe and hold firm to the line "your program should not crash; why is it crashing" and ultimately they should be able to tell you why (based on the crash report, and perhaps other things). But the answer may turn out to be, "because this Apple subsystem is broken. Fix it and our programs will stop crashing."
Have you looked at the logs in Console.app? They might shed some additional light.
Also, since you have recently reinstalled the OS, you are probably in a good position to reinstall the OS. Most people are reluctant to do so because they have a lot of data and applications, and it's a huge pain to preserve them. It sounds like you're not in that position, so doing that reinstall is relatively easy. I would therefore do it just for the peace of mind.
You can contact Adobe Support at http://www.adobe.com/go/supportportal.