Sorry to keep banging on but heck... why not...
In mixcontrol I was on a buffer size of 128, and medium firewire driver latency before, and now I'm running as good if not better on 64 and short!
Wow!
The negative side of the coin shows that the drivers have been far from optimal until now. Glad it got spun around...
Focusrite did get a little bad "press" lately, the rumours going around were that their firewire interfaces are not the fastest, guess this is their answer to this question.