Wireless 802.11g Router Displaying Two Channels??

I downloaded iStumbler tonight to monitor my wireless setup, primarily to make sure I wasn't clashing with channels on other nearby networks, and surprisingly my router is broadcasting TWO channels (although it wasn't earlier in the day). On Channel 6 as is its defaults but also Channel 0??
Unsurprisingly, my iMac can't maintain a wireless connection.
Any ideas? I'm going to power cycle the router but this seems very odd...??
I have a screen Grab of the iStumbler window that I can send to anyone who's interested in helping out here...
Cheers
Luke

Does no one have any comments or queries?
I thought I'd expand on this cause I am wondering whether it has anything to do with the problems of connectivity that a lot of people have been suffering with recently.
While monitoring the network and while my iMac is connected I see my network broadcasting on Channel 6.
But during the evening I lost connectivity, and the two times this happened, the iMac / iStumbler via the Airport card was picking up a second channel on the network. This channel was showing these statistics:
Channel: 0
MAC Address: 00-00-00-00-00-00-0
Vendor: Xerox
Freq: -1
I called the modem/router support line as, the one reason I bought this modem/router was that they had good support for Apple Macs: they were bemused and had not seen it before, their only suggestion being that the new 802.11n wireless spec will use TWO channels to boost network performance, therefore could it be the drivers / airport card trying to search for a second channel that's knocking out the connectivity?
They were a bit worries that it might be their wireless router in which case they've offered a refund / exchange but I'm going to try getting a friend round with an older Mac and iStumbler installed to see if he can view this miscellaneous channel as well...
Any thoughts or views would be welcome, I'm not expert on wireless technology nor macs, but do think this is very odd.
Luke

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