Sound in KDE

[Art Ross <aross donet com>]

I'm sure this is a frequent post but I'm not having complete success
configuring sound in KDE.  I'm running RedHat 6.0 and have sound working

in GNOME.  Under the suggestion of the FAQ's at www.kde.org, I added a
line to my 'startkde' script.  The line I added was 'kwmsound'.  I
received a message that it failed and I should try starting kaudioserver

manually.  I took this suggestion and was able to hear sounds when I
went into the sound configuration portion of the KDE Control Center.  I
took the time to set up several sounds for various events and was able
to hear them when I pushed the test button.  When finished this process,

I tried some of the events that I'd just configured sound for and didn't

hear anything.  What am I overlooking?
  I'm just new to KDE but not to RH6.0 and GNOME.  I'm obviously missing

something in my initialization of KDE.
  Regards,
  Art Ross