amarok2 kde4 11.2

First time on this list!

I have a question about Amarok 2 and KDE4.# in openSuSE 11.2.  It was playing
along just fine one day and then quit.  since then NO sound.  I have a large
group of mp3s that have woorked for a long time in a directory
/usr/share/Music/.  Amarok is very knowledgeable about the Music directory.
Almost all of them are selectable in the play list.  I don't think this is a
amarok problem but more of a KDE problem.

In the passed permissions on /dev/dsp and mixer needed to be set to 666 and the
user added to /etc/groups/audio.  All of this was done but no sound.  "strace
-o" showed dbus as a possible problem source.

Please note that all related things have been rpm -e and then yast2 reinstalled,
SuSEconfig and ldconfig were run.  Still no sound.

Anyone have an idea?