Skype & Ubuntu 9.10

Lately I've wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to make skype 2.1.0 to detect my integrated microphone: all my efforts were to no avail. A colleague of mine had a similar problem with a different laptop. On Ubuntu forums somebody suggested that the problem can be fixed installing the package "padevchooser" to help configure your PulseAudio and select the proper Mic input. That worked great but I had to downgrade to version 2.0.