HELP!!!! Audio/Firewire dropout in 10.4.10 & no fixes work

I have a MOTU 8pre and 2 days after I purchased it I upgraded to 10.4.10..
Biggest mistake I made...
Now my 8pre is switching between converter (live mode) and Interface (firewire audio interface mode) and random times... I've been helped by staggeringly brilliant MOTU support, but at the end of the day, this problem still hasn't been resolved and its down to the Mac Pro! (the MOTU seems to be fine on an iBook G4 running 10.4.9, but isn't fast enough to run LP 7.2.3)
So I've tried (in this order):
Restoring back to 10.4.9 (via my back up 1TB HDD)
Archive and Restore (to 10.4.7 then Combo'd to 10.4.9)
Upgraded back to 10.4.10 and then run the 10.4.10 v1.1 combo again
Tried to run the Audio Update but saw that it was part of the 10.4.10 1.1 update
Replacing the 10.4.10 FWAudio.kext file with the one from the 10.4.9 installer
Replacing the 10.4.10 AppleHDA.kext file with the one from the 10.4.9 installer
These are pretty much all the solutions I've seen in the discussion boards and NOTHING IS WORKING! My MOTU is still flitting between the two modes which means I can't listen to iTunes for more than 2 mins, and most importantly can't write any music or record in Logic as it freezes when the 8pre switches to Converter.
I don't see any point in doing a hard re-install of OS X 10.4.7 (from my DVD) as surely the System folder was restored in the Archive and Restore and THAT is where this problem lies? i.e in a faulty .kext file?
If someone has any more ideas, PLEASE, PLEASE tell me as I have a recording session that's been arranged weeks ago this coming week, and I'm getting more and more desperate as this bleeding thing still isn't working!!

Update:
I have now also tried erasing the hard drive and re-migrating my stuff over... This meant I had Quicktime 7.1.6 rather than 7.2 which SEEMED TO WORK, but then 5 mins later it started switching again.. However the switching is not as frequent.. does this help anyone?
I really REALLY don't want to have to do a nuke and reinstall everything as that would literally take me weeks. (I have a load of plugins and components for Logic) and it seems a bit extreme because an interface doesn't work, but I know it's working fine, as I hooked it up to another Mac Pro and I had no problems...
Argh this is frustrating!

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