The Ubuntu forums appear to have shat themselves - noone else is showing up online and my thread posted 3 hours ago isn't appearing in the index. Anyway, this is what I was attempting to ask about.
I removed the mail icon in 10.04 as I had no use for such foolery, I use web mail. For some reason the audio icon also disappeared, and there is no audio or sound widget in the list of stuff to add to the panel.
How can I get back my volume adjuster thingy?
In addition to that, is there any easy way to install the java runtime on 64bit ubuntu? I googled it but the tutorials involve a whole truckload of command line foolery. I downloaded noobuntu because I don't want to deal with that. Is there any special package hidden somewhere? I downloaded the java runtime, but it didn't work the way it does on Windows - I still don't have the java plugin for firefox.
I removed the mail icon in 10.04 as I had no use for such foolery, I use web mail. For some reason the audio icon also disappeared, and there is no audio or sound widget in the list of stuff to add to the panel.

How can I get back my volume adjuster thingy?

In addition to that, is there any easy way to install the java runtime on 64bit ubuntu? I googled it but the tutorials involve a whole truckload of command line foolery. I downloaded noobuntu because I don't want to deal with that. Is there any special package hidden somewhere? I downloaded the java runtime, but it didn't work the way it does on Windows - I still don't have the java plugin for firefox.