System Sounds Disappeared

Hello all,
This is probably a pretty basic question to most but for the recent Window's switcher it is baffling to me! Anyways, earlier this week a lot of the sounds that my mac made have disappeared. The speakers still work because I can play music and everything but sounds like the new mail sound, the no mail sound, the sound I got when I deleted things from iTunes are just not going off anymore.
I first thought that it was an iTunes problem but the program sounds extend to almost all of the programs on my mac. Is there any way to get them back? Thanks in advance for all of your help!
-Alex

They may be turned off.
Click on the Apple menu and select System Preferences from under it. In System Preferences click on the Sounds icon (usually second row, far right). In the Sound preferences, click on Sound Effects.
In this window you'll see a list of the different alert sounds. Clicking the sounds should play them. Under the list of sounds is an Alert Volume slider. Make sure the slider is not all the way left (that means the volume is all the way down of course). Under the alert volume is a check box that says "Play user interface sound effects". If there's no check mark there, add one.
Click any (or all) of the sounds to see if you can hear them now. If not, up beside the Sound Effects tab you clicked earlier is an Output tab. Click it and report back with exactly what you see in there.

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