Sounds disabled while in Video Chat

I use video chat just about every day... but I still chit-chat with others at the same time, when video chat is active, the IM sending/receiving sounds are disabled by iChat, is there a way to re-enable them, I can't seem to figure it out.

My apologies. I understand what you are saying now.
I have two computers sat on my desk.
One is Running Tiger and the other is running Leopard.
Although they have different Screen Names I do have some of the same Buddies in both Buddy Lists. So I have been hearing the sounds when people come and go whilst in Video chat not realising that what you siad about Leopard was in fact the case.
I tested my calling myself and turning down the vol on the Tiger computer and then logging out of AIM (As the Video Chats are Peer to Peer you can do this)
As the Leopard computer also signs me as Away if I leave it for too long I have the coming and leaving sounds all the time and had not noticed.
Sounds like time for http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html again.
Unfortunately this page often suffers from being behind on the OS level
It is certainly behind on the iChat version level despite several prompts by me to the Hosts to pass onward.
You have to enter this info with your Text.
9:00 PM Tuesday; December 18, 2007

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