Tethering Samsung SPH-A920 in Snow Leopard

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard I can connect to my Samsung SPH-A920 phone as a modem via bluetooth but tethering through the USB port no longer works. The phone does not show up in the network list in the Network Preference Pane as it did in Leopard. Instead I get a set of signal strength bars in the Menu Bar which is greyed out. Clicking on this shows the word Initalizing, also greyed out.
Other possibly related info. 1.When I try to use the Set Up Assistant to connect to the internet the Internal Modem item is greyed out and cannot be selected.
2.In the Kernal Log in the Console an item saying "64 bit mode enabled" appears. This is on a default, no keys pressed boot. I don't know if that means I'm booting into 64 bit mode or just that it's available for software that can use it. (As a side not almost all the Apple software and Frameworks are running in 64 bit mode)
Any help getting tethering to work again will be greatly appreciated. Using BootCamp and Vista is a poor alternative.

msnnorthcott wrote:
Why did Apple launch this OS before properly testing it?
How is Samsung's failure to produce a native-mode driver for their printer at all Apple's fault?
Ask Samsung when they're going to produce a non-PPC driver for their product.  In the meantime, if you search the fora, you'll find several solutuons.

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