Looks like Apple flubbed an OS-X update

[thewayne]

It takes your OS to 10.4.10 and has some lovely side-effects! Things like kernel panics, your wireless not working reliably if you use WEP or WPA, weird noise coming from the speakers when playing music. I had some strangeness this AM when Firefox would just spontaneously crash. I would by trying to open my Yahoo mail, and *BOOM*. Same thing with the Camino browser, which is a Mac-specific Mozilla project. Safari seemed unaffected. So I went and checked OS updates, and they had an audio update, and since one of the symptoms of problems with the 10.4.10 patch was audio-related, it seemed prudent to install it (reboot required). Thus far, I haven't had any browser crashes, and the network connection with WPA seems stable, so this might be a good fix.

But if you don't need the 10.4.10 update, I wouldn't install it. I didn't know when I did it that it had just been released that day, it just happened to be the day that I checked updates.

Here's to hoping it fixes the network problem!