Clint Harshaw wrote: [...]
The problem is that when I'm in Gnome, the volume slider slides down to 0 no matter where I set it -- except for maximum volume.
The solution seems to be to apply this rpm: http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren/linux/random/download/gnome-applets-2.6.1-1.i386.rpm
as I found the result under this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=119501
Clint