Just a small comment to add here, I've made use of the THW recipe several times since the above original resetting problems and have had none on the 4 or 5 downloads since then.
Did the .epub file attached above get corrupted? (I was too lazy to unzip & inspect it, since things seemed to be fine the next day...

and I'd go off on the ATI tangent again but... :P so I'll just say if you're even remotely thinking about X.org just don't anywhere close to an ATI product until the OSS drivers are mature.)