Alsa For Skype Not Working

I'm running SUSE 10.2 64 bit. I have
installed alsa-driver-1.0.14rc4, alsa-lib-1.0.14a, alsa-utils-1.0.14
(configured to use lib64 and my sound card) . I have configured the
sound card (Intel HDA) in YAST, run alsaconf, alsamixer/kmix and have sound
and mic working on my machine. When I run skype (1.3) I get the
following error:
"ALSA lib pcm.c:2072snd_pcm_open_conf) Cannot open shared library
/usr/lib/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_empty.so"
I have been googling this for days now and can't seem to find a solution.
Can someone help me out here?