10.4.6 causing FireWire problems?

I've just updated the 10.4.4 shipped in my new Quad to 10.4.6 only to discover that I can no longer us IP over FireWire. This networking was proving invaluable as my new, factory installed Airport Extreme card only works 5% of the time, while the cheapo Belkin card in my old G4 gives me a rock solid 100% connection to the router - which means that I have been forced to download files to my G4 before transferring them to the Quad. Could 10.4.6 be responsible for the problem? I have a sneaking feeling that it's all to do with DHCP not assigning IP addresses, but I'm not techie enough to be sure.

Hi PIT56,
When you did the update, did you unplug the firewire device?
If not, you may want to unplug it and run the combo installer again.
Please follow safe update proceedures by repairing any disk permissions and/or the disk itself using the disk utility before applying the combo updater.

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