Macintosh

Forgive me if I am not posting this in the proper forum, but since I am running the Mac client, I figured this would be a good place to start.

I am new to Eve, and have been enjoying it so far. However, the other day, all my combat-related noises have completely disappeared. I still have normal sounds...the normal ambient music, clicking things, warping, etc. But when I enter combat, I no longer get any "combat music", my weapons make no sound, and it seems like my weapons no longer even have an animation (muzzle flashes, etc.). Everything was fine for the first few days, and now I am on day 3 of no combat sound. It makes combat rather dull with no weapon noises and just the boring ambient music.

I have filed a petition, but so far the GMs have no been able to help. I have tried rebooting the client, clearing my cache, and manually downloading some patch a GM linked me to. Someone in the rookie help channel told me to use the Eve Repair Tool, but as far as I can tell there is no Mac repair tool (the one on the Eve site is a .exe file). I also tried switching ships to see if just my main ship was bugged somehow, to no avail.

Has anyone encountered something like this? Any ideas how I might restore my combat sound? I have been enjoying Eve so far, but this is a rather annoying problem for a new player and I kind of don't even want to play anymore until I get the sound fixed.