After update Airport no longer works

Hey All,
I've had my PBG4 for over a year now and have a APE Base to go with it. About a month or so ago I ran the apple update program and walked away while all the programs were installing. Upon rebooting my laptop I no longer see my base station at all. The base station is located 4 inches from the laptop while I'm home. I do no remember which patches were installed at the time. I am assuming that it was an AirPort patch that is causing this issue but I can't tell it if it was the base station that upgraded or the airport card.
Currently I am cabled into the base station directly but I'd like to be able to go wireless so I can use the laptop around the house again.
Anyone got any info/ideas on this?
Also I'd revert back to an old version to test it out but I read in a couple of posts that you can't scale back.
- Pete

Hi there BDAqua...
I used this Pacifist software and followed instructions on this thread, rebooted, nothing seemed to change. Repaired permissions, nothing changed... I thought, oh well! Maybe I'll go to my local (Warsaw Poland) Apple repair centre.
Sadly, I put my computer to sleep, about an hour later, opened it up with ethernet cable attached for internet, and noticed the wireless icon was now dark... lo and behold, clicked on it and my network was checked (this after having had my password "rejected" a million times before) and ... I carefully slipped the ethernet cable out of the socket... and I was still connected.
So my wireless is working again, since doing all that stuff (back to prior firmware version) but for the life of me I don't know why, since it didn't seem to be fixed immediately after all that tinkering and rebooting! Any thoughts?? Did I actually do something that fixed it (must be, since I finally fooled around with it after almost 3 weeks of no wireless) or was this just random??
This is far too un-Apple-ish, by the way! I was used to this with PCs, but first time I've ever had to get so technical with my Mac!

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