I think it may have to do with permissions. I believe this was meant to be
used primarily as a live cd with the user logging in as root. It has an
install script and I had installed this to the hard drive and created a user
account for myself with sudo admin privileges. After logging out of KDM and
shutting down x server, I switched to the root user and started x again.
Sound works fine as root, so it must be in the configuration somewhere. I
will probably just run as root until I don't need this OS anymore :) Thanks
for the comments.

I didn't see any content in your email!?

I haven't had many problems running older versions, changing the
/etc/apt/sources.list to read 'old-releases' instead of 'archives' still
gives access to the packages for that version, I believe they are just not
updated anymore.