Well, this has all unfolded over the past 8 or 9 months now, but I started
off with a 64bit version of Edgy. I upgraded that to a 64bit version of
Feisty and all hell broke loose. Then I asked around in here what to do and
was suggested to try the 32bit version. Well, being I did not want to lose
all of my data I installed the 32bit version of Feisty on another hard
drive. Then I tinkered around with Ubuntu Studio which changed my desktop
appearance a little bit (to something cooler, IMO). Anyways, I upgraded
Feisty to Gutsy (removing all repositories as suggested by Gobby), and that
is where I am now. I might add that when I upgraded my default background
became this orange/brown-colored inverted Nike swoosh type photo (which I
assume is standard Gutsy). After reinstating my repositories (and upgrading
them from Feisty to Gutsy in the text and link portions) all but 1 of them
worked (and I forget which one that is at the moment). Anywhoo, on all
setups that I attempted to use Jack (which was just about all of them) I had
no luck with it.

Hardware Specs (in case they help you help me here) include:
XION II case
160 GB 5400RPM ATA HD << the one with the 64bit on it
80 GB 7200 RPM ATA HD << the one with the 32bit on it
Floppy 1.44"
2 DVD+/-RW burners....1 ATA, 1 SATA
Gigabyte GA-939-** series (socket 939) (** fills in the 2 characters I am
forgetting at the moment)
[has Dual BIOS, 1AGP8X slot, 5 PCI slots, 4 RAM slots, 10/100/1000 LAN]
AMD Athlon64 4000+ CPU
2 GB DDR (2x1GB) Dual mode Ram
450Watt Power Supply
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 4000] 8X AGP card (it's either 128MB or
256MB)
Integrated sound card
Integrated LAN