Time Capsule Goes Missing

As a newbie to Apple and convinced I was doing the right thing buying the TimeCapsule to make a copy of my data I have come across a little problem that does not appear to be the same as most are having on the forum. Sorry this is a little long but I cannot explain it briefly.
The TimeCapsule is running in Bridge Mode with a fixed IP address 192.168.0.9, the DHCP service is off. I have a Netgear DG834GT with the wireless turned off providing the DHCP service and access to the internet at 192.168.0.1. Connected to the TimeCapsule (500Gb version) is a USB hard drive to give another 400Gb. The unit is in "Create a wireless network" mode on Channel 2 as my neighbours systems on 11 and 6 and 9 appear to degrade my signal but 2 provides a constant 130 transmit rate under the Finder bar's icon for the airport. We were told to use WPA/WPA2 not WEP, so it does with a 63 character key and the grade(?) is n (compatible with b/g) so the three computers we have will work via the one unit.
So, everything works fine, the windows xp machine and the imac 17" (Leopard 10.5.2 with airport 5.3.1) can access the internet with no dropouts, we can print, and can access all the storage. Even the TimeCapsule software is working well now that I have adjusted how often it launches (every hour was a bit extreme when it backs up 1.2Gb each time because of my email!), the first backup was done in a little over 3 hours with no problems that I am aware of. Its even quiet enough to sit in the bedroom at night left switched on.
Just one small problem is stopping me from liking this device, every 24hours or so after the first day or use the unit just vanishes off the network. You cannot ping the unit, the airport software on the imac cannot see it, even when I put the ip address in as fixed (192.168.0.23) it still isn't there. That is until you unplug the TimeCapsule leave it a minute and then power it back on again? The unit is not particularly hot, I can comfortably put my hand on the top or the bottom without worry.
I really want to understand if something is wrong with the unit or is there some software glitch going on which will be fixed soon? Does it go to sleep and it isn't waking back up again?
Hope someone can help.
Andy

Thanks to the discussion board I was able to narrow things down a lot and hopefully resolved my problem. With the help of my old Windows XP machine I set the logging on the time capsule to be sent over the wired network via the router. It would appear the WAN port of the time capsule was working even though the mac could not access it.
Anyway, after watching several items on the discussions over the past week I have tried many different things from making sure there are no spaces in the name of the unit and changing the default name to some more little drastic measures, I now appear to have a working unit.
The loss of connection to the unit hopefully has been identified as the mac address controlling. I had the unit set to Timed access, default as disabled and the rest of the families addresses in the unit on full day. Setting this to disabled a little over 30 hours ago and no-one has lost access to the unit, yet!
To improve the signal the unit now sits on a mouse mat vertically, held in position by an old USB drive mount, gives me another 10% of signal in my house that has mesh in the walls. The unit also appears to run cooler too....
These two ideas are not ideal as I have lost some of my wireless security but found a way on the discussion board of hiding the SSID and entering a different 63 character WPA/WPA2 key will keep nastiness at bay.
I hope this provides someone insight to what may be going on with the Time Capsule.

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