2.6.32-25 has affected wireless connectivity

Hello -- hope I can find a bit of help... or at least a confirmation of my own suspicions. I am not a techie (as you'll probably be able to tell from my questions below), but I've become a huge Ubuntu fan/supporter/evangelist over the past year, and I've finally run into my first real problem.

I'm currently running 10.04 with Linux kernel 2.6.32-24 on an ASUS EEE PC 1000HA netbook (and loving it!)

Every night before shutting down, I run update manager and install the updates for the day and last night was no different. When I booted up this morning, everything seemed fine except for the fact that my netbook could not connect to my wireless internet connection. It could see the router, and it tried to connect, but never did. Reboot. Retry. Same deal -- couldn't connect.

Remembering that I had noticed that last night's update was to the Linux header(s), bringing them to 2.6.32-25, I rebooted and selected the previous system version (2.6.32-24). Everything went fine, and I'm now able to connect to the internet.

Is there a problem with the latest build that would explain my problem? And, if a fix is generated, will I be able to access it from my current system (or will I need to update from 32-25)?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light on this for me!
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 0/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ed 1491 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: ed 1491 F...m pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7eb8000 irq 16'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC269'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,1043831a,00100004'
   Controls : 12
   Simple ctrls : 7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=1f5bec54-c2e9-47a6-93fd-71386bf92234
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429.4)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1000HE
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=dc422f50-b792-461b-8008-92f16ad6e26e ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34.1
Reproducible: Yes
Tags: ubuntu-une lucid networking regression-potential needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 02/10/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
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dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
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dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0501:bd02/10/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1000HE:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1000HE:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTekComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1000HE
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.