Airport base station agent process without the device

Hello,
just noticed that in the startup items of my macbook account I have an item labeled "airport base station agent".
However, I dont have an airport base station...
Since I'm having regular troubles with my wireless, I'm just wondering if anyone can suggest an explaination why the item is there, whether it might be an issue for my macbook wireless and whether should I remove it from the startup items or not.
Thanks.
Paolo

I ended up manually removing the AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist file itself from /System/Library/LaunchAgents/ and the AirPort Base Station Agent Process has stopped running in Activity Monitor ever since. I don't know how good of an idea this was to do but it solved the problem. My AirPortBaseStationAgent.plist file had this info in it:
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EnableTransactions</key>
<true/>
<key>KeepAlive</key>
<dict>
<key>PathState</key>
<dict>
<key>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.launchd</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent</string>
<string>-launchd</string>
<string>-allowquit</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
It is an older plist file dated Dec. of 2008 which got transferred to the my iMac via the Migration Assistant in Jan. of 2009. This file somehow didn't ever seem to update no matter how I configured the AirPort Utility. The file "com.apple.AirPortBaseStationAgent.launchd" that it makes reference to in /Library/Preferences/ doesn't exist on my iMac.
Thanks,
Gerard

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