Can you leave the breaker on the circuit and just have the lights & fan tie in BEFORE the GFCI?
I hate to make more work for you, but... Short of any other solution, why not just put lights and fan on one circuit, and receptacles on another?
The motor is an inductive load, and especially if it is a larger fan motor it's pretty common to get nuisance tripping of a GFCI from that. If it's just a small unit, maybe get that motor tested. But either way it seems to be tripping your circuit, so might as well just bite the bullet and re-route some wire.
Also GFCI's don't protect from overcurrent, only ground fault, so it's not really adequate for doing away with the breaker.
Just my take on it, but I'm pretty new to this so maybe someone else will have an ingenious plan.
[This message has been edited by girl germs (edited 01-23-2007).]
