Watir weirdness

I’m using watir-1.5.1.1192 on windows XP with IE7 for a number of
tests here, and well, things are just getting funky.

With some objects, watir occasionally will not finding them. If I go
in with irb, I can find them each and every time.
With other objects, the second or third time they are used, watir
can’t find them, nor can it regain a handle to them. Again if I go in
with irb, I can find them each and every time.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of problem? Any solutions?

–Kyle

PS: I’m running the tests using RDT/Eclipse.