I have no idea what I did!!!
Somewhere in there, I think that I fixed my sound, whether it was jacking with settings in GNOME, Seawolf, or *trying* to install ALSA and failing because it wouldn't compile properly, or wandering my way through a kernel make config purely to try and get some header files to exist, I dunno. Somehow, I have sound in gnome now.
Now that it's not critical, I don't need help on that issue anymore, thanks!
-Infamous-Tim-
P.S. I think I'll play XBoing just to enjoy the sounds!