LinkSys wired router set up advise?

I recently bought a LinkSys BEFSR41 wired router w/4 port switch and I've been having trouble setting it up. I bought it so I could have a connection for an XBox 360, and possibly a PC laptop soon. It's working right now, but the IP in my system prefs is set to the 192.168.1.100 which I know was set by the router and is not actually my Mac's IP address. When I first set it up I went in and changed that linksys address within the suggested range by going on to the linksys set up & administration page, but about a week later I started having trouble, and couldn't connect to the web, so I reset everything, and I'm back to the address above. I've done my best to follow the instructions on the page here:
http://homepage.mac.com/car1son/initiallinksyssetup.html#finish
I've also tried going on the LinkSys site, but they don't seem to like us Mac users.
is it safe to keep the 192.168.1.100 address? I've changed the password to access the router control page, and typed in all my Mac's IP settings, but is there something else I should be doing? I'm just REALLY confused by all the options on the router's control page, like the MAC address clone, filter, etc.
I have it set up to "obtain IP automatically"
One other thing I've noticed is that when I run bit torrents, the tracker always shows me as firewalled now, which was not the case before the router (I have the torrent port open)
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
iMac G5 17" 1.9 ghz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I had problems in the past with my Linksys setup. I had the "Configure IPv4" set to "Using DHCP" for a long time but my wireless connection stopped working. I ended up having to manually enter my IP adress, subnet mask, and dns server info.

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