[14.10] Sound Device Undetected?

[sgashepp-u]

Hello Peeps!!
There's no sound device showing up in the audio settings, and and X showing in the volume indicator.
I'm confident the error has something to do with permissions and may have been caused when I used fsab to mounting my home folder on another drive (which worked great).
Oddly enough, sound itself works just fine.

From searching the webs, I've tried the following suggestions..

- re-installing pulsaudio
- chmod 777 .config/pulse
- sudo chown sgashepp:sgashepp ~/.config/pulse/

Nothing has had any effect. Is probably obvious, I'm fairly new to linux,

Some addittional info:

Output of "ls -l ~/.config/pulse":

total 1
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 256 Mar 10 22:24 cookie

Output of "sudo aplay -l":

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
Failed to create secure directory (/home/sgahepp/.config/pulse): Permission denied
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Edit: I was rude enough to forget to express my gratitude for anyone gracious enough to offer assistance, so.. Thanks for your time everyone!