15" Macbook Pro internet issue

I'm terrible at keeping up with updates, so I did a few updates yesterday and afterwards ran into a pretty obnoxious problem.
Everytime I close the lid to put my Pro asleep and return to it, whether it be an hour later or just a few minutes, my interent does not want to work.
Airport says it is connected to my home wifi network, but there is no internet connection. Safari gives me the error message "failed to open page because you are not connected to the internet" and suggests I troubleshoot the connection. When I do a network diagnostic, all options are green and it says that I am connected to the internet. Airport in the network menu also comes up green and says that I am connected and lists an IP address. Safari still says no connection, Chrome and Twitter also report the same thing.
Switching networks (I have a few networks around my location that I am allowed to use) does not solve the problem, the same exact situation occurs on any network I connect to.
The only way I have been able to solve the problem is by connected to another network, then doing network disgnostic and changing the connected network to my home network. After doing the diagnostic, everything works fine.
I can fix it, but this is pretty obnoxious. Anyone have any suggestions?

sorry to tell you this but there are loads of us with this issue and it seems to be affecting anyone with 10.6.5 and later.
Nothing you can do except complain and harrass their tech dept as i have done, then they might take it seriously and admit tey have a software issue.
unbelievable seeing as they cost so much.
email them and keep your fingers crossed! good luck

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