Anybody use a FireWire Solo orother M-AUDIO product w/GB 2.0

I have had this periodic problem where GB will not open up. I get a warning about timers and midi (I have no midi devices) and have to force quit to get out of it. I've gone over it with very patient Apple Cares folks and M-Audio support, and the only thing that seems to work is uninstalling and reinstalling the most recent driver from M-Audio for the Firewire Solo I use. Needless to say, it's a pain. Antbbody else have this or similar problem?
imac G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) GB 2.0

I use the Firewire Solo and I haven't had any problems like that ever, in the past couple years.
I installed the most recent driver from the M-Audio website and followed all of their directions for installation and use when I received the interface. I am using version 1.1 of the system preferences pane and I have not updated since, simply because it has continued to work perfectly even after os updates.
Are these warnings coming from GB or from the M-Audio prefences pane? Are you shutting down, then connecting the Solo, then restarting? That has been my only complaint about the Solo. Sorry to hear you are having difficulty.
You might also want to check your midi settings under the Audio Midi Setup utility in your applications>utilities folder.

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