Thanks for all your messages. I will then reflash my N800 and try again, once skype is stable in os2008. Any news about it ( skype stability) ? We flashed the same image on both N800's , may be there is some issue w/ the image. I will try try again and report.
One more issue with WPA on 2208 is that it is hard to connect to hidden networks - essentially you can only manually set up a fake net as WEP (the dialog is initially limited to that), let it fail, and then edit every parameter in the connection manager again (and watch out, the SSID is not set from your entered network name, but to some arbitrary network it happens to see during initial setup).
Thx