#Works, I don't Kill the alsa-utils on halt/reboot.  I assume this leaves alsa-utils in an unsable state before system halt/reboot.
#Remove prior links to alsa-utils.
andrew@andrew-desktop:/$ sudo update-rc.d -f alsa-utils remove
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/alsa-utils ...
 ...(I deleted this)...

#On 2 and S, start alsa-utils.
andrew@andrew-desktop:/$ sudo update-rc.d alsa-utils start 50 2 S .
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/alsa-utils ...
   /etc/rc2.d/S50alsa-utils -> ../init.d/alsa-utils
   /etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils -> ../init.d/alsa-utils

#Prints all startup/shutdown links to /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.
andrew@andrew-desktop:/$ find /etc/ -iwholename "*rc*.d/*alsa-utils*" 2>/dev/null
/etc/rc2.d/S50alsa-utils
/etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils