LinuxQuestions.org - Sound card no longer working. FC7 2.6.21

After an upgrade to FC7, I enjoyed weeks of blissfull sound-filled computation, but now all of a sudden, it no longer works! I get this error when starting the volume manager:

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No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.

system-config-soundcard feeds back my soundcard correctly, but lists no PCM devices, I've never used it before (soundcards always worked) so I don't know if thats relevent or not :(

lspci shows:

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00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

looks like the card is fairly well recognized, maybe a driver issue...I just finished updating the system and included in the packages was a few ALSA updates, I hoped they would fix it but alas, they did not.

Thanks to everyone!

EDIT:

output of lsmod:

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rt2570                168640  1 

dm_snapshot            20709  0 

dm_zero                6209  0 

dm_mirror              24277  0 

dm_mod                57229  8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

usb_storage            65665  0 

sata_via              15941  0 

ata_generic            12101  0 

pata_via              15429  2 

libata                115417  3 sata_via,ata_generic,pata_via

sd_mod                23873  3 

scsi_mod              137549  3 usb_storage,libata,sd_mod

ext3                  125385  2 

jbd                    59881  1 ext3

mbcache                12357  1 ext3

ehci_hcd              35405  0 

ohci_hcd              23749  0 

uhci_hcd              26833  0

yikes! Thats looks nothing like it usually does...theirs like nothing there! I'm not seeing anything for the sound card either...but after some research I can't find what it wants.

(Info that might be useful...)
Notice the rt2570 at the top? Thats for my wireless card, and to get that to work I had to blacklist 3 modules (rt2500usb, rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib), seems impossible, but that wouldn't have anything to do with this would it? The problem might have started right after doing that, I don't know. I didn't notice the problem for awhile.

HOLY CRAP EDIT:

I updated to kernel 2.6.22, and sound worked.

BUT....

Internet does not. I write this from the old 2.6.21 with no sound. The folder "/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/" which on 2.6.22 has a bunch of folders, has nothing. I assume that is the source of all the problems, but where did it go!?!?

Seriously, literally nothing, what could have happend...