Airport and Wireless network issues

I have read all the issues about airport and wireless network. I don't see the issues that I have. My issue is that my wireless network used to automatically connect as soon as I power up my powerbook; then one day I power up and I was connected to default and I did not see my wireless address listed. I when into airport setup to try and setup again and it would not let me saying my password was not right. I logged off and then on again this time my network address was listed, but it still would not connect automatically to the network, now everytime I go to the web I must pick my own network and put in a passwork that sometimes works and sometimes not.
I have not done any updates or put any new software on the powerbook, so this is not the reason for my problem.
Please Help!!!
Thank's
La Vern
G4 Power PC 15in Alum   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Had this issue with our imac after upgrading to 10.4
The answer was to go into Network and select airport tab.
Listed there (for me) were three settings. Delete all of them ,they will probably include the actual network you want! Click to apply. Re-start the Mac.
Go back to network and airport and you should now see only the network you wish to join. It will ask for passwords again!!
Click apply and restart. It worked for me.

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    64 bytes from 10.10.10.1: icmp_seq=39 ttl=255 time=1.911 ms
    64 bytes from 10.10.10.1: icmp_seq=40 ttl=255 time=1907.626 ms
    64 bytes from 10.10.10.1: icmp_seq=41 ttl=255 time=907.528 ms
    64 bytes from 10.10.10.1: icmp_seq=42 ttl=255 time=1.847 ms
    64 bytes from 10.10.10.1: icmp_seq
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    After discussion with tech support they said the Airpot card had to be replaced. This was done with admirable expediency and I got the MBP back in 36 hours. On testing it the same problem was still there. Identical pattern on the ping test, the fault was not the hardware.
    Once more a call to Apple and another tech. This time we booted from the OS 10.5 install disk and ran the ping test. I ran it for a few hours without seeing the fault, it worked fine. The problem had to be in the operating system.
    After backing up all the data I zeroed the drive and did a clean install of the OS. Bingo! Problem gone.
    So after 10 months, two airport cards and a mother board, the issue was in fact something corrupt deep in the OS.
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