Except for smarty_fs2.vp, all of the md5sums are good. And the version of smarty_fs2.vp you got off of the CD is good too, so just use that one instead.
From the logs it does look like sound is working though, at least as far as the game is concerned. Do you have a ~/.openalrc file? If so, what's in it? If you don't then try the attached one and see if that does anything.
As far as the pilot file crash, that seems a lot like you have (at some point) mixed pilot files from HEAD builds and the stable-branch CVS builds (like what I put out). The two use the same pilot file version, but are completely incompatible. You will get crashes, and things like that "ASSERTION FAILED" error, whenever you try a load a pilot in one type of build that you had used in the other. So try just creating a new pilot and see if that fixes it. Then just make sure that, if you use a HEAD build, you create a special pilot just for that.
And no, you weren't being pushy. I tend to do a bunch of different things at the same time and will often need to be reminded of something that I've forgotten about or overlooked. The general rule for dealing with me is that if you don't hear from me in a day or two then it's safest to just fire off an email or PM to get my attention.
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