Problem with sound in Gnome--works from control-center, not from panel

[Daniel P Hensley <dansherryn juno com>]

    I'm having a problem with sound and Gnome.  I'm running pretty much
the latest version of Gnome under kernel 2.2.11.  I compiled everything
from source.  I have esd 0.2.8 working fine (I can play mp3 files,
etc.).  I have sound turned on through the control-center, and I can
play sounds just fine from there.  But when I launch the panel (either
from .Xclients or from a shell), none of the sounds play.  At one time
it did work.  I think it was the first time I launched the panel after
compiling and installing everything.  But since then it hasn't, and I
can't figure out why.  Any ideas?
    Is there a way to search old messages?  I tried looking through the
last few months, but there are so many messages, and I didn't see
anything that seemed related to my problem.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

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