Airport card disappears in OS9?

Hello all
I just acquired a G4 cube. It has 640MB RAM (more is on order) and a stock 16MB video card (got a new one on the way...) and the Airport card. I just did a clean install of OS 9, and updated to 9.2.2. The entire system, including the Airport card works flawlessly under Tiger (I'm using it to type this message), but the Airport card disappears in OS 9. On initial boot in OS 9, the Airport card will show up, with four "bars" of signal in the control strip, showing it is connected to my home network (which is temporarily secured with WEP, so it will play nice with OS 9 - I've also tried it with an unsecured network). However, whenever I try to actually use the network (software update, web browsing, whatever), the bars go blank, then the Airport icon greys out and disappears. I click on it and get the message "there is no Airport card installed". Occasionally, it gives me a number "3278" and nothing else.
I don't know if this is related, but OS 9 feels a LOT slower than it should on this G4. Tiger runs a lot smoother and faster, yet there is considerable mouse lag when dragging the pointer across the screen, and a definite lag when opening applications or documents in OS 9.
Any ideas on why I can see my Airport card in X and not in OS 9?
thanks,
Rich

OK, more weirdness...
Before I received our last message, I got a strange error - I came back to the computer and there was an error box saying something like "This computer can not go to sleep because it is missing some of the system software. Please reinstall the system software.". Gulp! Sounds like a corrupted OS install...so, I wiped the drive. I repartitioned it (120GB WD drive - 4096MB for OS 9, the rest for X) and formatted it using the OS 9 disk utility software. I then booted from the "Software Install" disk and let 'er rip. I wound up with an OS 9.1 partition...and...all of the original Airport card problems were back!!! I tried to put the machine to sleep, and got the above error again.
So I reformatted again, and this time used the "PowerMac G4 Cube System Restore" disk, which reset everything to factory defaults from a disk image. Again....no Airport, and no sleeping due to "missing system software". What in the name of the Force is going on here...?
I am now running extended Apple Hardware Tests and will report back.
Of course, everything works perfectly in OS X, so I'll probably just let it live in Tiger land...but this is seriously challenging my Mac geek cred...LOL
And just a side note - OS 9 installs SO much more quickly than X! I've been able to completely reinstall twice now in rather little time!
Rich

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