Why has my Xbox Live stopped auto connecting.

As you know my Xbox console bit the dust recently with the Ring-Of-Death problem. Being impatient and more than a little lazy in sending it off for repair I decided to pick up an Elite system. I was a bit stuck when it came to transferring my profile and save games from the old HDD to the new 120gb drive so I decided that whilst I'm waiting for my free transfer cable, i'd just plug my old HDD in to the new system. I really didn't have the patience for transferring it all via memory card.

So I'm up and running with all my game saves in tact but there's two strange quirks. The first is that my Xbox Live account no longer signs in automatically. My profile loads up immediately, but I'm left with the option to 'connect to Xbox Live'. I'm really not sure why this has happened. Is there something stored on the drive that identifies the console it belongs to? I know it's only one click on the controller, but like most things in life that don't do what they should it's bugging the hell out of me.

The second quirk is the time. I'm in the UK and when I set up the console I obviously set the correct time, location and switched on the 'day light saving' option. Now though, my console is constantly showing the time as one hour behind the actual time. What more weird is that when I select the option to reset it, it's grayed out! The only way to change the time is to sign out of my profile, change the time and log back in. Unfortunately the change is untimately reversed. I'm not sure if it's after a given amount of time or when the console is next powered on.

If anybody has any answers or suggestions about these issues, i'd appreciate some help. I've Googled them both and have found a couple of people with the same problems, but it seems neither forum users or Microsoft CS have a clue as to what is happening (Microsoft seem to blame peoples Internet connections).

There was good news today regarding my broken console; after just 6 days with Microsoft it's apparently on it's way back to me. The estimate for UPS to actually get it back to me is longer than the reapir took at 7 days but fingers crossed it'll be here in the next couple of days. I was going to sell it on it's return but I decided to purchase a new 37" Samsung 1080p for my new Elite console so I've hooked up my old 32" Samsung in my bedroom with a space underneath for the reapaired console to sit.