Polarizing Filter and Lens Hood

I have hoods on all my lenses. Recently I started shooting with polarizing filters and found that turning the front element of the polarizer with the hood on varies from slightly awkward on the 17-40 4.0L with its wide, short hood to very difficult on the 70-200 4.0L with its long narrow hood.

Are lens hoods and polarizing filters not meant to be used together?

Are you using autofocus and a linear polarizing filter? I thought only circular polarizing filters were supposed to be used with autofocus and that a linear could/would cause problems with the autofocus and metering? Do you use a linear polarizing filter instead of a circular for a reason?

I'm not trying to be a smart ass, just curious.

You can remove and install the hoods on the fatter lenses without upsetting the polarizing filter's position. If I am using a polarizing filter on my lenses (all are the 77mm filter size with the 1/4-turn lens hoods), I will put the hood on after setting up the polarizing filter if it makes sense due to location of light sources, etc. If there's no problem with stray light I might leave the hood off for the shot.

caldgrp: if i can fiddle with the CP with the hood on, then i leave it on, otherwise i take the hood off. specifically, 16-35 f/2.8L always gets the hood even with the CP (i suspect the same as 17-40), 70-200 f/4L's hood comes off if i need to use CP, but i usually shade it with my hat or something just to prevent unnecessary flares

-alex