Snow Leopard - Safari and Entourage 'drop out' after a period of inactivity

Ever since I loaded up 10.6 (and later 10.6.1), both Safari and Entourage get the beach ball when my system has been inactive for an hour or more (time based problem?). Doing resets, clearing caches etc. do not seem to have any effect. The only effective way to get Safari/Entourage back is to restart the system (I thought I had left this behind when I waved good bye to PCs). Sometimes it appears that running Network Diagnostics has cleared it but this is not absolutely reliable.
My ISP tells me the system is up/available and it can 'talk' to my modem and they imply that it is an Apple software problem. Apple imply my modem is on the blink but get me to push some keys and the problem 'temporarily' goes away until after the next period of inactivity.
Any help would be appreciated.

Have you considered using wicd?  I use it on this computer, and have had no problems with it.  However, to be fair, the packages on this pc haven't been updated for a LONG time, so it is possible that if i updated it, I'd have the same problem.  You didn't mention a wireless connection daemon, so I thought that I'd ask.

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