Hmmm. It's interesting that the network connection didn't work on just the MkII. Was this a documented problem with the MkII that there was a change made for the MkIIa? I've never seen too much discussion of the matter other than to just put a hub in between.

Don't feel too bad about the Linksys issue, they usualy have the best price/features ratio, so they've gotten a pretty good market share.

Matthew