to give this thread a little
and by way of update, I ended up with the Linksys WRT610N. 4Gigabit capable LAN ports, Dual N band wireless and a link for the USB storage drive (would do a memory card or USB hard drive - not a printer though).
Setup was easy - ignored any of the disks, though only thing that took a bit of guessing was the router administrator name and password to login initially i.e. admin and admin. I've had it a week now and it's been rock solid, yet there has been a lot of torrent upload traffic through it, as well as my VPN into the office and such like. I suppose it is a bit on the pricey side, but then my last router did me for 5 years or so, so over that timescale the cost isn't an issue.
The real test will be the hammering it gets at a LAN party in a couple of weeks
