Airport Card Freezing Mac

Hi,
My airport card in my mac has been working fine up until the other day. Now I cannot connect to my Airport Express, or any other wireless network for that matter
At first I thought it was my Airport Express, but now im not so sure. When I boot up and turn on my Airport Card its gives me the colored pinwheel and freezes completely.
I can connect to internet via the lan port (wired) to my modem however when i try to connect via wireless it freezes.
Is my airport card faulty? is there anyway you can test it?
Why would it stop working all of a sudden? I have removed the card and reinserted it (powered down of course) and the arial is connected firmly.
I dont have another card to check it.
Help!

I am also having the EXACT same problem with one of my Macs.
I have a PowerMac Quicksilver 867mhz G4 and a 12" PowerBook G4. About a year ago my PowerMac froze with the color wheel spinning. I had a lot of graphics programs open at the time and I figured I was trying to do too much...so I restarted. When I rebooted the computer would freeze as soon as it got through the start up screen. Through the troubleshooting process I tried unplugging the airport card in my PowerMac and it started like a charm.
I can’t figure out for the life of me what’s wrong. With the airport card plugged in, the computer freezes and will eventually (after 10-20min) stop trying to find a signal on the airport and finish the start-up process. When I use the pull down menu from the icon from the icon in the menu bar, it doesn’t find my base station or any of my neighbors. My laptop on the other hand finds my base station and 3 of my neighbors’ - full strength. My work laptop (a PC) finds my base station as well and has no problems connecting.
It shows up in the system profiler and in the network configuration box, but says it isn't in range of any networks. I have moved the computer and the airport into the same room within inches of each other, and still no luck.
I took the PowerMac into the Apple store w/ my airport express and magically everything worked perfectly. The apple “genius” said it must have been his magic touch. Unconvinced, I get it home and set everything back up. Like I expected, I have the same problem as before. No signal. So I take it to work, to a friend's house, etc and it WORKED! Everywhere except my apartment. So I figured it must be interference of some sort. I don't have a cordless phone, so I thought it must be one of my neighbors. I have tried deleting plists for the airport, making sure the computer is properly grounded, you name it. The only thing I haven't tried is replacing the card or using an antenna booster. I've pretty much given up on it until I buy a new computer.
Right now I am running the internet over airport to my poor ol’ PowerBook with internet sharing enabled and then running that connection through the ethernet cable to my PowerMac. Talk about a crazy contraption, but it works.
Please help!
PowerMac Quicksilver 867mhz G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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