I think built in faxing is a nice addition. Besides, it was probably cheaper to do this than to bundle FaxSTF in Panther.
It's a shame though, Cocoa eFax--I mean, Fax Center--was looking pretty sweet.
iTrip is the way to go. I have heard nothing but negatives on iRock, while only positives--including signal quality-- on the iTrip.
I'm a little biased, mine arrived today!
I went from 128MB to 256MB and I think the thing [iMac DVSE]got slower! Latency is just horrible, maybe I've installed too many apps, or maybe my partition is too small (3GB). For whatever reason, it's just slow and unresponsive now, compared to before.
After reading some of the topics in the Installation forum, I noticed that many people just post new topics without scanning the current topics for possible solutions. I'm sure that your problem is real, but so are other people's.
Personally, I don't like having to say the same thing over...