DSL disconnects ONLY when cable is attached to laptop

I am experiencing the strangest phenomenon with my DSL line and my XAVI7868r+ router under Leopard. If I keep the ethernet cable disconnected and use only wireless, DSL connection is fine. The moment I connect the cable, SOMETHING disconnects my DSL connection.
Does anyone experience similar issues... and is there a fix?

This is a major problem for Apple!!
My iMac and MacBook both have intermittent issues with Airport and my Router. Over last weekend I had a very poor relationship with the internet and did all I could to relieve the problem, (I'm no slouch at this stuff though my ISP thought I was barking).
The most annoying thing is it seems to work then 10 mins later nogo. I have disconnected my base station and NAS drives from the router and configured the connection to use the routers built in wireless network and all seemed OK for an hour or so and then....GONE!!!!
When the base station is connected it does seem worse but whatever I do nothing is a long term fix.
Seems to me there are a lot more horrors lurking towards the surface of Leopard - and it would be nice of Apple to at least give us a schedule as to when these problems are going to be ironed out, because I'm about 10 minutes away from binning Leopard and I have not done that since the system 7 days.
C'mon guys do the right thing......AND FIX IT!!!!!

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