Update: What I think is happening is the com port appears to become disassociated with the modem. When I look in the phone/modem applet, the modem is listed but it is not attached to any port. From ...

Ok, so I head out of town this past weekend to do some skiing. I take my laptop cause I had some work to do and would be out of the office on monday so I figured I'd email it in. Well this was a great ...