lirc errors loading serial module in Fedora 14 - For MythTV

I run MythTV and use a serial IR transceiver (made by IguanaWorks) to read my remote control and blast to a ShawDirect satellite set top box. I am finding that the linux kernel used in F14 2.6.35.14-96.fc14 sometimes does not load the lirc_serial module correctly, complaining that it is already in use when its not even loaded. I found a somewhat stable set of steps to load the lirc_serial module.#!/bin/bash -v

# stop myth and lirc so we can re-adjust

sudo /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop

#UN-load lirc module

sudo rmmod lirc_serial

sudo rmmod lirc_dev

sleep 2s

sudo /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none

#re-load lirc module

sudo modprobe lirc_serial

sudo modprobe lirc_dev

# start myth and lirc

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start

sudo /etc/init.d/mythbackend start

The other thing I fund is that if I run these commands from within a bash script the lirc modules STILL might not load.

SO

I run them on manually on the commandline.