Speaking rate in iChat, Mail, and other apps

When I set the "Speaking Rate" in System Preferences->Speech->Text to Speech to change the rate of the speech, few apps seem to use this setting. If I press "Play:" and get a preview, it seems to respect that setting. But then in any app that has an option to "Speak the phrase" (e.g. iChat) the speech is at the original speed. Apps like Skype seem to respect the setting.
The command line utility "say" in the terminal seems to be almost random as to if it uses the setting or not - I can find the pattern yet. The same is true for An Applescript in Mail.app called from a Rule.
All of this was working flawlessly in 10.5, so this is all new to 10.6.
I did migrate my user data - perhaps there is some preference or setting file somewhere that is incompatible?
I see other people have this issue (e.g.):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10962136&#10962136
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10090631&#10090631
But I don't see any resolution. Has anyone else seen this and solved it? The default speech rate is far too slow for me.

If by ink you're referring to the program in settings, that is a handwriting recognition program which translates your writing into a text font which is what I don't want to happen.
According to the Mac Help, "You can also use Ink to draw a sketch and insert it in any document that can display pictures." Would that option perhaps do what you want? (I don't have a tablet myself so I can't test it.)

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