I am not that familiar with swapping kernels. I have in the past ended up with 3 or 4 different ones in my GRUB menu but that was due to an updater/installer bug. The problem is I am not confident in reversing out/swapping the kernels. If you would like to contact me outside of the bug report via email and help me test the kernels I will do that. FWIW, I set my running kernel as locked and updated the rest of the applications, rebooted and sound is still working.