IPhone 4 tethering, but the phone isn't the problem!

Okay, it seems as though the vast majority of people are having problems with their iPhone 4's not connecting, or in Windows, it's causing their systems to freeze. Well, I'm actually having the exact opposite of this. iPhone good, MBP sad.
Problem (Long): Plugging in my iPhone 4 via USB and using tethering causes my new MacBook Pro to freeze after only a few minutes use (a few minutes being about 10 or so). I have used it before without troubles, and I'm noticing that both times I streamed YouTube videos, as well as videos from blip.tv (Flash videos). I can rule out the browser, as Safari and Firefox both locked up (well, the system went kernel panic on me). Essentially, looking at the crash report, a networkUI something or other took a dump, hence the panic.
I'm assuming that the large amount of data that's being streamed through the phone is causing it, since prior times I've just browsed the interwebs, and it worked just fine. I'm on AT&T, I have 3G, and I'm getting about 2-3 bars (the place I'm staying has Wi-Fi, but it's horrendously slow, and the walls here are lined with lead I think, hence the low signal).
Am I right about what I'm thinking? Large data over kinda hokey 3G signal causes OS 10.6 to freak out? Seems most likely.
Problem (Short): iPhone 4 tethering causes my MacBook Pro to kernel panic and it's cause of some networkUI nonsense. iPhone 4 is unaffected.
I'm not super duper worried about a rapid response, as I'm pretty sure this is the reason why. However, I just want to know if anyone else has had this problem, and if they have, was it the same conditions?
Oh, and for those that are curious, my MacBook Pro is only two weeks old, with all updates installed.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!!!! :-D

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