2008 aluminium macbook WiFi NOT working after 10.8.5

Well, I have tried EVERYTHING, reset PRAM, SMC, reinstall combo, back from time machine, delete wifi and creat a new one. NOTHING will solve the WiFi problem on 2008 aluminium mackbook.
Before 10.8.5 everying just went great, and I am sure that there is nothing wrong with the router or macbook itself.
reset PRAM and SMC does NOTHING.
reinstall combo only work ONCE right after your first reboot.
back from time machine will NOT help.
The only thing that helps is to DOWNGRADE to 10.8.4
APPLE, DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I reset the SMC and ran the newer 10.8.5 combo updater. The installer ran and the machine restarted, and guess what - no wifi again!
I decided to see if applying the 10.8.5 supplemental update alone (not as part of the combo) would correct the situation. After that wifi was working again, but just for that boot - after restart it was gone again!
I went into safe mode and all is fine - wifi works in 10.8.5. I'm not running anything special that would be disabled in safe mode, so I don't think that the recent releases made any adjustments to avoid the wifi problem.
I think I'll have to go back to 10.8.4 again -- *sigh*.

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