Serial Port DataReceived Event

Hi

im trying to create a vb.net application that uses the serialport component, i seem to be having the same problems as in this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=129797&SiteID=1 in there they found that catching the exception and ignoring it gets past the problem and everything works apart from the datareceived event being called, now i need this event to be called and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas of a way to fix this problem. i dont really like the idea of just having a timer running checking the com port, so i hope someone can help me out with this problem.

cheers