That worked Toleda!!! Thanks so much!
To confirm for everyone's reference, my issue was that the AppleHDA.kext and my Yosemite OS version were not the same.
I updated OS to 10.10.2, restarted, reinstalled ALC898 with HDA Enabler =1 via Multibeast 7.2.2., restarted, and I have sound and all...