I also got problems with my wireless CF. Somehow, the profile from the 'Lan & WiFi' utility was not written to /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, so, when I inserted the card, 'iwconfig' was showing no ESSID or WEP key configured at all. I had to put all this manually into /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts -- only then it worked. At the same time, same stuff worked nice with RC5. My configuration involves setting ESSID, WEP key and auth type = Restricted. Everything else is set to be automatic, and the type of profile is 'Wireless', of course.
Other problem: I tried to change jog wheel behaviour from 'left-right' to 'up-down', but without any luck -- each time I restarted X, the jog wheel behaviour was still 'left-right', with the Input GUI showing the same 'left-right' option, as if I never changed it at all. So I had to modify /etc/X11/kb/userdefined.xmodmap manually.
And the last thing I stumbled upon so far: while the multi-select capability in the package manager is obviously useful, it is very easy to accidentially select some more packages than needed. I once ended up installing apache2, along with some wanted packages, without any need of it. I would suggest asking for a confirmation with a list of the packages to be installed.