Airport quits under stress - Requires restart

I'm experiencing nearly the exact same thing that iBook users were suffering from
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=208672&tstart=120
When downloading large files and multi-tasking my Airport reception cuts off. No amount of toggling it on and off restores the connection. However, upon restart all is well until I stress the computer again. For many of the iBook users the 10.4.3 update and/or Airport update 2005-001 cured their problems.The only symptom I don't have that they experienced is the jumpy cursor.
I'm still using 10.3.9 so these aren't options for me. Because of work I can't upgrade this particular machine to Tiger. Has anyone else been experiencing? Does anyone have a fix? Is Apple only release fixes for Tiger machines?

In case anyone else is having this problem I do have something of a solution (other than 10.4.3 and the Airport Update). If you disable a portion of your RAM so that there is only 1024MB available then the problem goes away. This was the same fix that iBook users were initially using. Of course, losing a fifth of you RAM *****. But my connection is rock steady now.

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