[.38sw]

Did you check the connections? Um, no. I checked everything else, though, and am just running on the assumption that the sound card has gone bad. It is possible that one of the cats knocked something loose while squirreling around behind my desk.

[lodwick]

Do check.

Just this morning Mrs.L asked me to replace a bad light bulb (which I had replaced only a month ago) and it turned out that evidently the poochies had somehow managed to unplug the device sometime last night.

That, or we have ghosts of some sort - it's not the first time this has happened to this particular lamp.