skype still available for mandriva?

[cp0ff]

being interested in installing skype, I was irritated to see that the skype site
does not offer an RPM for mandriva despite alot of reference to it online.

I found a mandriva rpm for it in several places elsewhere and they all had a bad key.

I installed one and it worked once, never again- and now my audio is screwed.

I am not able to record in soundrecorder or audacity anymore
and messing with the mixers and driver settings has had zero- to negative effect.

no options that I can give skype results in an improvement.

I do not know where to go from here, as uninstalling also had no effect
on bringing back my audio.

I can hear that my mic is working, but software is not picking up up for anything.

any input is appriciated

Im running 2009.1
on an IBM thinkpad

[nmset]

You should uninstall it completely and grasp the static release from skype.com

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static

Unpack it somewhere and link the install dir to /usr/share/skype

This works great for me.

EDIT

This worked great for me in 2009.1.
I'm using the Mandriva shipped version in 2010.0 and no complaint at all.