I have compiled and installed kernel 2.6.18.2 from kernel.org, using the same .config file as 2.6.17-10-generic and can confirm that the problem does not exist in this version of the kernel. Everything works OK in 2.6.18.2. Hopefully this will guide us in fixing the edgy kernel. Thanks
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