Ok, I've bought myself a new router, and located it in a different position; the connection stability seems to be alot better now (running B91). There is the occasional drop out, but thats to be expect (it is wireless after all).
The one problem with NWAM still remains; I had to manually setup resolv.conf - even putting dns in nsswitch.conf didn't fix the situation. Is there an eta on when the broken networking is going to be repaired? Matthew