Hey guys!
Thanks for the welcome. I'll do my best to keep Chris in line.
Before I posted I had actually tried opening garage band before, and checking on my sound prefs. Neither worked. I probably should've mentioned that.
Kris, your last suggestion worked! I tried Paddy's first, and then your first two suggestions and got no results. And for some reason when I went into my users library prefs and tried to remove com.apple.soundpref.plist
and com.apple.systemsound.plist, they wouldn't move to the desktop. It automatically made a copy and that was what came onto the desktop. It was very strange.
Anyhow, going into Activity Monitor worked! Thanks Kris! Thanks to all of you!
-Danielle