Terminal Audible Bell Sounds Like Screen Shot

This weirdness began several weeks ago. The alert sound in Terminal sounds like the camera snapshot when you take a screen shot. I logged into another account and the Terminal sound is normal so I'm guessing it has to be something in my home directory. I trashed the prefs, all the cache files, and my bash profile. That didn't work. Any ideas?

You solved it! All of the other system sounds were working normally including the system alert sounds. But, upon your suggestion, I opened the sound prefpane in the system prefs and re-selected the current alert sound. Terminal immediately began using that sound.
I have no idea how it got screwed up in the first place or exactly what was wrong with it, but it works fine now. Thank you!!!

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