Thanks guys, I installed the voodoo lag fix kernal yesterday night. This set up doesn't yield the sheer performance of gc2.0 but its MUCH more stable for me so far. Not saying I buy into benchmarking scores but i use them to compare roms and with ep1w i got 1600 and gc i got 2100 so its not that far off.
Also, does anyone know if I could use the new Cyanogenmod7 rom and use the ep1w modem downloads? From what i understand the only thing wrong with cyanogenmod is that it doesnt have modems yet, is this correct?