Ubuntu Multimedia :: Sound Studdering/choppiness And Pitch Warbling?

I only upgraded to 9.10 about a week ago and ever since ive had nothing but sound issues i havent ever had any sound issues before. going back to 5.10 or so. ive used 9.04 since it came out without issues also and that definately used pulseaudio now since 9.10 ive had a multitude of weird audio issues rhythmbox and audacious2 both had an issue where audio id be playing would randomly go flat for a small while, and timing would get a bit off (i call it warbling) mplayer doesnt work well with ANY sound output anymore, seeking exponentially takes longer to restart when using pulse, sdl runs like pure snot now with sdls alsa and pulse libs for audio, its choppy and staticy then wine games are also having issues, using alsa OR pulse( with wine-pulse patch) it sounds like pure crap, its extremely choppy and staticy basically almost all the sound on the whole system has issues most of all games and video.