[LAU] pulseaudio headaches

[Rustom Mody]

I recently was introduced to nted
Tried it on my debian-lenny desktop and it works nicely.
But now need it on my laptop for a travel-demo session.

Now the laptop (was) running hardy which has some pulseaudio headaches.
In any case I had to upgrade because the clone monitor which is needed
for a presentation does not work in hardy

Now the headaches increase!  Pulseaudio more and more tightly
integrated into ubuntu and nted (or is it timidity?) does not like it
at all.
Managed to remove pulse (with some associated packages)

nted works once again but I cant adjust volume and and clicks and
other ubuntu sounds which could be configured with
System->preferences->sound wont come up saying: Waiting for sound
system to respond.

Any suggestions?