amd64, nforce, kernelupdate , skippy sound

I've a AMD64 machine, running suse 9.1 Yesterday I ran a (long overdue) YOU, which updated my kernel, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Ever since that reboot (and a reinstall of the nvidia drivers) my sound is skippy .. that is, it goes fine for a few seconds, and then starts sounding like muddy the mud skipper .. skip skip skip ... Any ideas ? lsmod gives: snd_seq_oss 36224 0 snd_seq_midi_event 9216 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 60352 5 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 64936 0 snd_mixer_oss 21504 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_ioctl32 18048 0 snd_intel8x0 38996 6 snd_ac97_codec 74372 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm 113420 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ioctl32,snd_intel8x0 snd_timer 27784 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 13840 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm gameport 5248 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_mpu401_uart 9344 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_rawmidi 28964 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 9868 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd 68104 24 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ioctl32,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 11040 2 snd Currently listening to: Nine Inch Nails - Suck Gerhard, == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O God only helps those who help themselves, =`\<, Therefore Satan only helps those who don't helpthemselves (=)/(=) NOw, does Satan help himself ?