OS X Leopard firewall / Skype crashes

Argh. Why? Apple seem to have really trashed the OS X firewall. It’s application based now with no option to restrict ports – i.e. all or nothing for each application.

Therefore when you install it (a) ditches all your firewall rules, (b) leaves the firewall off by default (for some users like me anyway) and (c) Skype crashes when you turn the firewall on, no matter what you do.

Madness. I understand where they’re trying to go with usability of firewalls but  to remove functionality such as specific port blocking is stupid.

Here’s the skype thread on this