Crash on changing Locations (MBP / 10.5.1)

Hi all,
Leopard has worked well for me apart from one persistent problem: it crashes occasionally when I change network locations. I have an 802.11g network at home, with a location called Home with Airport on and everything else disabled. I then have a location for work which has Ethernet enabled and everything else off, and a different proxy setting. When I get to work I plug my MBP into an external monitor and USB hub and wake it from sleep - so far so good. I then change location from "Home" to work via the Apple menu and the mouse pointer freezes and I have to force a reboot.
This happened as soon as I changed to 10.5, and it has also happened again this morning after updating to 10.5.1.
I have tried deleting these network locations and recreating them from scratch and the problem persists. I would like to delete the plist file which stores these settings - can anyone tell me what it is?
The machine doesn't crash when turning Airport on or off, or changing from work to home, although it did crash once when I tried to delete the work location from the Network pref pane. That's what led me to think I should delete the file which stores it.
Permissions and volume repair show no problems. Thanks for any insights!
Cheers, Matthew.
PS: system.log prior to crash (restart where I inserted "*"; Peony is the machine name):
Nov 16 10:33:14 Peony mDNSResponder[23]: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet8(7) Flags 8863 Family 2 192.168.38.1 has different family: 0
Nov 16 10:33:14 Peony mDNSResponder[23]: getifaddrs ifa_netmask for vmnet1(8) Flags 8863 Family 2 192.168.111.1 has different family: 0
Nov 16 10:33:14 Peony mDNSResponder[23]: SetupAddr invalid sa_family 0
Nov 16 10:34:03 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: fsck_hfs: Volume is journaled. No checking performed.
Nov 16 10:34:03 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: fsck_hfs: Use the -f option to force checking.
Nov 16 10:34:10 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/machinit.d/airportwps.plist
Nov 16 10:34:10 localhost com.apple.launchctl.System[2]: launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist

I have EXACTLY the same problem with both of my macbook pros (the newest is 2.4GHz, both running 10.5.1).
One more fact. When I get to work, the computer automatically connects with our wireless system. Everything is fine, until I use location manager to switch locations to "work", which does not include a wireless option, just an Ethernet option with a fixed IP address. After I reboot, I can switch locations to "work", and everything works fine.
More recently, I've used a different approach that does seem to avoid the crashes. When I get to work, the first thing I do after waking from sleep is to turn off Airport. After doing this, I change locations to work. No crashes after doing this for about a week.
If anyone knows of a better way to solve the problem (e.g., removing bad files that migrated with me from earlier software versions), please let me know.

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