10.5.1 - Smart folders still broken

Hi,
Here are the symptoms I am experiencing, wondering if anyone else still is.
1: Make a smart folder, with the only criteria being the subject. Everytime I try tomake this, the select lists just goes back to 'From' and won't say on 'Subject'
2: If i do a search, then click the 'save' button, nothing happens. The button depresses, but I'm not asked to create a new smart folder or anything.
Idea's ?
Thanks folks.

Another clue: I had the exact same problem when I updated my BlacBook to 10.4.11
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1241227&start=0&tstart=0
In Leopard - even after a reformat and virgin install - it did the same thing: cut out every few minutes and lose the network connection. In Airport Utility under Leopard it can't even find my ABS (older, not Extreme), though oddly enough it can connect - briefly - before dropping again and then reconnecting, over and over.
Booting from a 10.4.10 partition with the laptop in the same physical location results in very strong signal and perfect WiFi connection.
This leads me to believe a core piece of system code changed in 10.4.11 and was carried over into Leopard (or perhaps vice versa, given the timing of the Tiger update). So it's back to 10.4.10 for me until/unless this gets fixed.
-dan
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