eth1 getting moved to eth0

[Martin]

if have two network interfaces, eth0 which i want to be
the hardwired motherboard device, and eth1 which should
be the wireless device.  it has been working fine for some
months, but something got corrupted and I just can't get
things working again.

the wireless device wants to come up on eth0, despite
what's in /etc/modeprobe.conf and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.

all the files in /etc/sysconfig/networking and network-scripts
seems to be correct... that is have eth0 where i expect and
eth1 where i expect.

Am I missing some other configuration files that controls which
interface gets bound to eth0 or eth1?

and also, every now and then kudzu thinks i've removed and then
re-added the wireless device, and then i have to end up editing
all these config files to get things back to where they were. (
and then kudzu still wants to change things).

I have fedora core 2 + patches.  kudzu 1.1.68.2-1

-Marty