Mic Auto-Adjust

Google Voice and Skype both automatically turn the volume on my microphone all the way up.  I hate this, especially since the mic is about an inch from my mouth and nose, both of which (whom?) make a whole host of noises I never want to hear again.  There's a reason they're not audible at normal speaking distances - it's friggin weird, even just to hear someone breathing.

So!
For Google Talk (still don't know how that's different than Google Voice) downloaded PrefSetter.app, and changed "audio-flags" to 1.

So far I have to reset it for every call.  I tried doing it with Chrome all quitted, and then restarting (someone somewhere said I should), but it still resets to 3 pretty often.

For Skype:
I'm gonna try this guy's thingy.

Okay, that doesn't work either, not even a little bit.  Bargh.

Now tried this one:  seems good so far.

UPDATE 06-06-12

Skype's latest has an option to turn off mic auto-adjusting.  Ta da!