LABAUDIO,

Thanks for the feedback. I had found another post that suggested the .distrib files, but they aren't where suggested: /usr/share/sounds

That would fix the wrong sounds at certain times, but I can't see how that would affect the garbled audio everywhere else - It's almost as though an internal "pre-amp" volume setting has been set to 300%, although the final output volume is not all that above normal - just sounds absolutely horrid...

It just seems that this should not have happened by installing a theme.. peraps a bit too much creativity on trying to turn it into a Star Terk PADD??

Probably will do me good to re-flash... maybe this time I'll take notes so I can remmeber how I got everything working so well to my liking!!