It was as I recall a timing/time out issue, and very possibly the one you describe, it would just have to not effect the normal keyboard and mouse USB 1.x devic

It was as I recall a timing/time out issue, and very possibly the one you describe, it would just have to not effect the normal keyboard and mouse USB 1.x devices, and I'm pretty sure these USB 1.x sound devices had much better than "a minute or longer" times in resuming. And, yeah, I can imagine how much of a zoo USB in the real world is....