Stop Dropped Wi-Fi on Linksys WRT54G Version 5 & 6 Access Points

Me and my partner have been having a heck of a time with our Macbooks and our Linksys WRT54G V5 router. Mine drops every 5 minutes. His doesn't drop unless we are both using it at the same time. We've tried EVERYTHING short of throwing the router away.
What happened is that Linksys stopped using Linux in their routers (to save cost?) and there are lots of bugs in their proprietary OS.
See http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32726
What is the solution? Reflash the router with a Linux based firmware. We did this last night and the network is solid as a rock.
THERE ARE RISKS!!! You could reduce your router to a brick if you interrupt the flash process. Please read all of the information before you decide to do this.
For those who are fed up (instructions):
http://www.bitsum.com/openwiking/owbase/ow.asp?WRT54G5%5FCFE
Macbook Pro 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

John has a pretty interesting observation. I recently reploaced my older WRT54G v1.1 with a V5 router and started having connectivity problems. I had no clue what was going on, my cable modem would constantly drop its signal, my xbox 360 couldn't hold a valid connection and I had all sorts of problems with my OSX boxes. I read this thread recently and decided to replace the v5 with my older router and hmmmm... suddenly my connection issues aren't issues anymore. (BTW I had recently already replaced my airport preferences so that isn't it)
Its only been a couple of days but it appears that my issues are gone. My next step is to replace my v5 firmware with either the Sveasoft firmware or the DD-WRT firmware and reconnect it.
This could be the solution to my problem, not sure what to say about the rest of you....
Cheers,
peter

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