Tried the manual execution as suggested:

fmradio(3345): GLIB DEBUG default - dbus call force_loudspeaker_on sucsess

Yes that "sucsess" is the actually spelling shown... DOH!!!

But, as is often the case, for whatever reason... now the speakers work and the audio switching is enabled. DOUBLE DOH!!!

Computers, I tell ya. After working with them almost daily since 1975 or so... they still don't work as expected... weird.

I typically keep the FM Radio applet on the desktop and was unable to get the audio to switch to the speakers. I tried running it from the command line as instructed, got the error, closed it out, then loaded the applet back to the desktop and executed it, voila... speakers functional. Bleh...

Thanks for the assistance.