Airport card intermittently not recognised

I just got my new 15" powerbook 1.67. The airport card only sometimes is recognised when the computer is started up. When I go into system profiler it says it is not installed. Restart a few times and it's there again! I ran the apple hardware test and it said that the airport card had "passed" - is this something with the OS not recognising it on start up, or is it more likely to be some kind of loose connection, needing an apple tech to have a look at it? I've also repaired permission, reset NVRAM, all with no improvement.
Is there anything else I can do to try to get this to work as it should?
15" Powerbook 1.67GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

As you mention, this type of behaviour is often caused by the Airport card not being installed connectly or tightly enough. The problem you are going to have is that the current model PowerBook does not give user access to the card where older models do (as it used to be an optional extra).
Probably the best thing to do is find yourself a local authorised Apple service centre for them to reseat the Airport card. They should be able to do it while you wait otherwise can make a appointment to do it on another day to do it while you wait.

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