Pulseaudio problems with softphones

I am unable to Ekiga to work with PulseAudio and from what I have read there doesn't appear to be any other softphone which does support PulseAudio. This is going to be a major problem in Hardy as I believe PulseAudio is the default sound daemon.

Has anyone managed to get Ekiga to work with PulseAudio in Gutsy? I have tried the usual fixes, please see my /etc/asound.conf and my /etc/pulse/default.pa files below for reference:

paladine@main:/etc$ more asound.conf
pcm.!default {
        type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
        type pulse
}
paladine@main:/etc$

paladine@main:/etc$ more pulse/default.pa
#!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF

#
# This file is part of PulseAudio.
#
# PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.

### Load audio drivers statically
#load-module module-alsa-sink
#load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0
#load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#load-module module-null-sink
#load-module module-pipe-sink

.ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-hal-detect.so

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
load-module module-hal-detect

.else

### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that
### lack HAL support
load-module module-detect

.endif

### Load audio drivers automatically on access
#add-autoload-sink output module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#add-autoload-source input module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#add-autoload-sink output module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#add-autoload-source input module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input
#add-autoload-sink output module-alsa-sink sink_name=output
#add-autoload-source input module-alsa-source source_name=input

.ifexists /usr/lib/pulse-0.9/modules/module-esound-protocol-unix.so

### Load esound protocol
load-module module-esound-protocol-unix

.endif

### Load native protocol
load-module module-native-protocol-unix

### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented
### here if you plan to use paprefs)
#load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-native-protocol-tcp
#load-module module-zeroconf-publish

### Load the RTP reciever module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-rtp-recv

### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above)
#load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink"
#load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor

### Automatically restore the volume of playback streams
load-module module-volume-restore

### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are
### connected to dies, similar for sources
load-module module-rescue-streams

### Make some devices default
#set-default-sink output
add-autoload-source webcam module-alsa-source device=hw:2 rate=8000 channels=1 source_name=webcam
set-default-source webcam

.nofail

### Load something to the sample cache
load-sample x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav
#load-sample-dir-lazy /usr/share/sounds/*.wav

### Load X11 bell module
load-module module-x11-bell sample=x11-bell

### Publish connection data in the X11 root window
load-module module-x11-publish

### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool.
### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually
### loaded modules.
load-module module-gconf

paladine@main:/etc$

If I `pkill pulseaudio` when I get the incoming call message in Ekiga I can accept the call (but only if I have the devices set to hardware in the Ekiga config, not if I use Default for output and input plugins).

I have read several "fixes" saying to use Default for the plugins in Ekiga but as stated above, this doesn't work and I get "unable to connect to device" errors.

Any help appreciated.

Paladine