Well, I've already stated my preferred attack of Hoggard, Harmison, Sidebottom, Panesar and Swann. I hope that you're not excluding Panesar from your bowling attack because of one ordinary series.

Regarding the 'keeper, it seems that all the front-runners (Prior, Mustard, Ambrose) are all good enough batsmen to go in at 6, so I don't think England will lose out at all by playing a five-man bowling attack with Swann (or Flintoff) at 7. And I agree that Flintoff should play if available, but I wouldn't bank on it too heavily- apart from the constant threat of injury, it seems to me that England tends to make false talismen of their players if they've performed heroics in the past. In 2005, Vaughan's previous Ashes series (and his victory in that one) was so firm in everyone's mind that no one really noticed that he had an ordianry series as a batsman. I can easily see the same thing happening with Flintoff.