Hmm, I'm pretty sure that you can edit mce.ini in Chinook and Diablo to modify the timeouts.
I'm not sure if the kernel with OS2007 supports USB Host or if you have to patch the kernel manually (http://www.muru.com/linux/n800-usb-host/) Either way, usbcontrol is a python app so with a bit of hacking it probably would run in OS2007. I'll see if I can do it sometime using Hrw's emulated N800. If not, # echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode