P.S. Try disabling USB hotplug if you're not using USB devices --hotplug 0
I'll try that.
Heh, what do you know? That worked. hotplug was set to '5' in the .config file (not set by me).
Perhaps that should be set to 0 by default in future versions?
Thanks for that. Seems my rant got through.

Sorry I had to do it.
