udev malfunction "eth1: no link during startup"

I am a noob to linux networking so if I ask something that has a completely obvious answer please be patient. I'm running Debian 3 Testing x86 (amd athlon 3000+) onboard 10/100 nvidia ethernet and PCI realtek gigabit ethernet. I use iptables to spread eternet throughout my room. The script I use to configure iptables for ipmasqerading requires static device names to work properly. However about every 2-3 months when I run a system update udev stops assigning the normal eth0 & eth1 to my NIC's. I most recently tried to cercumvent udev's persistant_net_generator.rules script with a naming script I fudged from references. At boot time i get the message "eth1: no link during startup". I got correctly named devices but my realtek NIC is somehow without a ATTRS{address} aka MAC address (from $udevinfo -a -p) and is therefore nonfunctional. My questions are: How can I get udev to asign names the way I want it to? or Is there some way to ipmasquerade without needing static device names?
I have attached the udev config files (from after one boot,after multiple boots there would be entries for eth"reboot#" eth"reboot#+1") as well as the workaround I tried.
Thank you.