My new macBook Pro Retina won't connect to my wifi.  Password IS CORRECT.

I just got a new-in-box retina MacBook Pro.  It sees my wifi network--signal is max--but the base station will not accept the 100% correct password.  Other devices have no trouble connecting.
I'm setting it up for a PC switcher.  What an embarrassment!
We're trying to connect to a Time Capsule base station which I added to my system last week.  No other devices have trouble connecting.
Suggestions?
--Jay

-->Try Connect to Other.
Done.  Failed.
-->Try clearing the preferred network.
If I understand you correctly, there is no preferred network.  It's a new machine, it's never connected to anything.
-->Please update your signature with your installed operating system for the questionable MacBook Pro, or indicate what Mac OS X version you are running, so we can tell you if there are additional things to look for.
Thanks for alerting me to this. I added some more stuff to my sig.
It's a new Retina MacBook Pro, running Mavericks 9.0.  I just unboxed it this morning.

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