Weird behaviour from AirPort after 10.5.8 update on MacBooks

Hi,
I see I'm not alone with the erratic AirPort behavior I've experienced after I updated my MacBook 13" and MacBook Pro 15" to OS 10.5.8. I have several drives and printers connected to my AirPort Extreme including a drive I use for Time Machine backups. Printing works OK, but ability to connect to the drives is sporadic and Time Machine grinds away until an error message reports the backup failed because the drive could not be mounted. Tried the MacFixIt suggestions of resetting PRAM and SMC without luck. Then tried Deleting the AirPort service and installing new one. I can't recommend this as I could not get AirPort service to connect again. Currently doing a Time Machine recovery on MacBook Pro from before the 10.5.8 update. Hey, this reminds me of when I used have Windows machines. Hope Apple issues a fix soon, until then I will leave 10.5.7 installed.

Hmmm.. unfortunately this is becoming a common problem in the 10.5.8 update. I'm having the same problem too.
One thing I did realize is that after upgrading to 10.5.8 (regular update) my MacBook 15" 2008 started becoming really really hot. I have iStats Menu installed on my top menu bar and I started paying more attention to my CPU and Airport temperature. At some point I did notice my CPU temperature went up to a soaring 80 deg C especially after waking up from sleep.
Long story short, I found that a possible cause of the freezing is that the latest updates from Apple automatically slowed down the CPU fan during sleep, this increases the CPU temperature which in turns causes the Macs to freeze when you try to wake it up from sleep.
I went around and downloaded smcFanControl which allows you to regulate the min fan speed manually. I've set mine to 4000rpm and so far for the first time in weeks have not had any freezes (fingers cross). I hope this helps and until Apple fix this (which I doubt it since 10.6 is out) this is the best solution the rest of us have.
Good Luck!
P/s: I love Macs but seriously, Apple have to buckle up. This Mac 10.5.8 freezing problem is not an isolated case and has been reported almost throughout the Apple discussion board. I expect a better update from Apple next time.

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