WRT610N Loses Connectivity To Internet Again and Again

I recently purchased two WRT610N v1.0 wireless routers and connected to two different Teraon cable modems which are each connected to TimeWarner Cable.
What I am finding on both of the WRT610N is that I am having to either Release & Renew the Internet (WAN) IP address or if that does not work, then reboot the routers. Testing of this involved using the PING and TRACEROUTE utlities on teh router to external IP addresses. After Releasing/Renewing the WAN IP addresses, the routers work for extended periods (e.g. 12-24 hours) and then again the routers stop talking to the cable modems.
The WRT610N units replaced older D-Link routers which did not have this recurring problem. I have refreshed the v1.0 firmware on both WRT610N units (latest on Linksys web site) which did not seem to make any difference on the two routers' WAN (Internet) interfaces.
Has anyone else seen this problem on the WRT610N or another router and have any thoughts as to fixing it since I do not like to have to get on the routers' http server as admin to release/renew the WAN (Internet) IP addresses and do not want to show newbies in case they mess with the other settings via the HTML interface.
If there is a way to script this process (release/renew), that would work as an interim since I could set up an icon on the desktop for the newbies.
Note that the problem has nothing to do with the wireless setup or the LAN side since I am using the PING and TRACEROUTE utilities from the router.

I'm having the same exact issue with this model although Linksys is ignoring the fact that this problem exists. I have the WRT160N V2 model. I have 6 PC's on my network, four of them are running Windows XP and two are running Windows 7. All but one is wireless. ONLY the "Windows 7" PC's experience loss of connectivity to the internet but maintain network connectivity. It seems obvious to me that there is a Windows 7 compatibility issue but Linksys is in denial. I lose internet connectivity intermittently and have to reboot the router to get reconnected. Nothing else works. I thought this was an issue with just my router but I see here that I'm not alone. Perhaps Linksys should at least consider the possibility that there may be an issue with their product and try to resolve it instead of ignoring it in the hope that it will go away.
I receive this message in the Windows event viewer:
"Name resolution for the name wpad.hsd1.ca.comcast.net timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded."
And this message:
"Name resolution for the name dns.msftncsi.com timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded."
IF ANYONE FINDS A SOLUTION, PLEASE POST IT. I"M THIS CLOSE TO TOSSING IT OUT THE WINDOW AND BUYING A BETTER BRAND!
WAKE UP LINKSYS!
Ron

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