Random loss of deck control

Occasionally and for no real reason FCP (5.1) loses rs422 control of my sony VTR - Im using Black magic decklink and can still control the deck with their deck control software but FCP wont play - normally when Im up against a deadline.
Using Latest OS and Latest FCP with Decklink HD pro

Well, as footnote to my previous post...
I have fixed 90% of all the strange behaviour & got my Decklink card working again by doing a clean install of OS 10.4.6, upgraded to 10.4.8, installed FCS 5, upgraded to 5.1.2, installed 5.7.2 decklink drivers and I'm editing to tape again.
BTW: I haven't installed a single other thing yet.... as I'm have just acheived this deadline with minutes to spare. PHEW!
So i don't know what further conflicts may arise, but we'll see.
On this first time getting ETT working again, I had to check the frame accuracy everytime as it was often 2 to 4 frames out of sync to tape.
Then once it finally locked it crashed about 40minutes into the 86min program. So then i just did an ETT from 10 seconds before the crash and thankfully it frame-locked first time and I made my deadline.
I'm not satisfied at all with the "looseness" of the frame-sync between FCP5 & decklink.... i had to do it about 20 times to get it to actually lock, and it still wasn't anyway... I had to compensate by 2 frames to trick it to hit the mark.
Is this everyone's experience with FCP-5 & decklink PCIe ?

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OSX 10.5.4
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While in the capture window and using deck control to play and shuttle, the preview input(in the capture window) does not update while shuttling back or rewinding. To clarify, the preview works fine while playing, fast-forwarding or shuttling forward - the preview only fails to update during rewind or shuttling backwards.
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Been looking around for a day or 2 can no-el-findo. In the days of FCP v3.x people would use something called a "stealth port". Essentially an 8pin serial port that would replace the modem in your G4. Paired with an 8pin to RS422 cable you were off to the races in terms of deck control.
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http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/devicelist.php
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Former Avid user who is making switch to FCP.
We used a Vlan to control all our decks and in reading the post, it seems all we need is a keyspan adaptor to a 9 pin.
Well, all is set up and plugged in but i don't see any options for deck control or timecode.
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