How to change airport settings in safe boot mode ?

At the moment my new macmini boots only in safe mode.
I think its because of a faulty airport. Unfortunately, the safe mode does not offer a GUI for disabling airport for normal boot.
The Apple Support page says "2. Remove the AirPort Extreme Card" but I do not want to open a 1 week old Computer.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107839
Any idea ? I would like to use the command line.
command-line utility ?
thanks
mini intel duo, pbg3 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
mv preferences.plist preferences.old
mv: rename preferences.plist to preferences.old:
Permission denied
mini:/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration admin$ ls -lat preferences.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 12383 Mar 22 18:48 preferences.plist
su root
Password:
mini:/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration root# mv preferences.plist preferences.old
reboot

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