Fedora Core 3 Sound Problems

What I discovered after my previous post is that while I now had sound on my Toshiba 4600, it sounded like garbage. I started up XMMS to listen to a few oggs and when I turned up the volume the music came across fuzzy and distorted. No amount of fussing with the mixer controls or XMMS would correct it.

I discovered that going into the preferences (Ctl+P) of XMMS the Output Plugin was set on "eSound" and switching it to the "ALSA" driver fixed the sound and made it crystal clear.