volume-control applet crash on start up of avant window navigator

The applet was working fine before. I did update my OS and it was still working fine, with that said I can't recall the exact moment the applet crash all i could recall was browsing the web and notice the message after a while. I thought was gonna be fixed on reboot but that wasn't so. I'll have to use alsamixer now on to lower and raise my volume control in ubuntu.

System Information
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx - released in April 2010

I cannot find the package version. But the bug report had this:

Package
   +awn-applets-python-core 0.4.0-ubuntu1
SourcePackage
   +awn-extras-applets

I expected the AWN to start without any issues and when I select the volume control the GUI fader to pop-up allow me to lower and raise the volume. Instead the program crashes on start up of AWN.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: awn-applets-python-core 0.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-29.58-generic 2.6.32.28+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-29-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 14 09:58:43 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/volume-control/volume-control.py
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: awn-extras-applets