N97 Ringtone Issues

Bought an N97 last Friday on release day in the UK.
Have had a whole host of NSeries phones from the N70, N73, N95/6 etc..
I use separate ringtones assigned to a range of about 10 contact groups and assign them from Contacts > Groups > Options > Ring Tone. This then updates the ringtone for all the contacts in the group.
I also set default ringtones in all the Profiles that are not silent.
This was never a problem in previous Nseries phones but what I am finding is that at times I get the standard Nokia tune then next call will use the correct ringtone and after that it is the nokia tone again. I am also getting a drop out in the tone about 2 secs in for about a second then starts ringing again.
I initially put this down to the fact that my phone is connected to computer and the mass storage and memory card are locked down, so with this in mind I moved them to the phone memory, not ideal but thought give it ago and I converted them to all 3gp files as assigning through the group would not show anything but 3gp or AAC.
However the issue still exists and is getting really annoying. It is having no problem with ringtone selected for incoming mail, messages, calendar and alarm clock.
Anyone else experiencing this?????
Ex Nokia N97 Owner - now in the world of iPhone 3GS
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Apologies for Hijacking your post but I don't really want to Start another "ringtone Issue" Post
Had a problem with my N97 last night whereby whenever my girlfriend called, the phone would ring with the default Nokia tone. All other calls rang with my personalised ringtone.
After playing around with the phone I found the reason was I had tagged her picture onto her contact details but used a full 5MP photo. After editing the picture and dropping it down to 640*480 the phone rang with the tone i'd set.
It looks like due to the image size the phone was taking a while to display the caller image and then play the tone as well
Thought it would be worth a mention incase anyone else comes across this problem
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